Don’t ask me who’s influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he’s digested, and I’ve been reading all my life.
CHARLES DE GAULLEIt is better to have a bad method than to have none.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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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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France has no friends, only interests.
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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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The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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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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In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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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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Don’t think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
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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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The future does not belong to men.
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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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Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that’s the way he shows his passion for equality.
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I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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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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France cannot be France without greatness.
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