Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
CHARLES DE GAULLEThe better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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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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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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Whereas ordinary officers must be content with behaving correctly in front of their men, the great leaders have always carefully stage-managed their effects.
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We may go to the moon, but that’ s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.
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The leader is always alone before bad fates.
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Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
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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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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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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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All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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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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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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How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
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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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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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