Don’t think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
CHARLES DE GAULLENo, I’m not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
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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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Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
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Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
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You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
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Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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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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The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.
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It’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
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France cannot be France without greatness.
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You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.
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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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A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.
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