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.
CHARLES DE GAULLEOne can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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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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Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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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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France cannot be France without greatness.
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Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.
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Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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The leader is always alone before bad fates.
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A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
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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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