I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
CHARLES DE GAULLENo policy is worth anything outside of reality.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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Character is the virtue of hard times.
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When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
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Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
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France cannot be France without greatness.
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The leader is always alone before bad fates.
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Old age is a shipwreck.
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How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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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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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon 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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Don’t think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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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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No, I’m not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!
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