Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
CHARLES DE GAULLEA true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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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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The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.
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There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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France has no friends, only interests.
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France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
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It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
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History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.
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