Character is the virtue of hard times.
CHARLES DE GAULLETreaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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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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He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.
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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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Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
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I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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The leader is always alone before bad fates.
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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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Only peril can bring the French together. One can’t impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.
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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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The future does not belong to men.
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Don’t think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
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France cannot be France without greatness.
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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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How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
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Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
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Betting against gold is the same as betting on governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.
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I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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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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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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