All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
CHARLES DE GAULLESilence is the ultimate weapon of power.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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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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Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
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In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?
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When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.
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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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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 policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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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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These people really aim very badly.
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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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Old age is a shipwreck.
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I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
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