All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
CHARLES DE GAULLELeaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.
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Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
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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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Old age is a shipwreck.
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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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I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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In politics it is necessary either to betray one’s country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
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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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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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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.
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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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