Character is the virtue of hard times.
CHARLES DE GAULLEFrance has no friends, only interests.
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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I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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Never relinquish the initiative.
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No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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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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France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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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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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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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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The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
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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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These people really aim very badly.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
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One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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Old age is a shipwreck.
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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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I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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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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