Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
CHARLES DE GAULLEDeliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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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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Whatever happens, the flame of the French resistance must not be extinguished and will not be extinguished. Tomorrow, as today, I will speak on Radio London.
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Never relinquish the initiative.
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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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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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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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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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It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.
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Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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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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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
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I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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