It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.
CHARLES DE GAULLEThe future does not belong to men.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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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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Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
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He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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The leader is always alone before bad fates.
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All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
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Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
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Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
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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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France has no friends, only interests.
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A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.
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Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
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