Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
CHARLES DE GAULLEOnce upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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Only peril can bring the French together. One can’t impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.
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Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that’s the way he shows his passion for equality.
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Betting against gold is the same as betting on governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.
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One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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Don’t ask me who’s influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he’s digested, and I’ve been reading all my life.
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Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
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Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents.
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You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared, either in scope or in rapidity.
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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.
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