A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.
CHARLES DE GAULLEFaced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
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I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented with anything else when one has come face to face with history?
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To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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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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Never relinquish the initiative.
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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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At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
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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 characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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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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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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The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.
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