Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
CHARLES DE GAULLEFaced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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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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Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
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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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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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All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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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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France cannot be France without greatness.
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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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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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Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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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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One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.
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One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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Character is the virtue of hard times.
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