Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
CHARLES DE GAULLEIn the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented with anything else when one has come face to face with history?
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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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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The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.
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Character is the virtue of hard times.
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Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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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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Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
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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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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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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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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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No, I’m not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!
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