Character is the virtue of hard times.
CHARLES DE GAULLEFaced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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France cannot be France without greatness.
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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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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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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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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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Old age is a shipwreck.
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I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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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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My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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