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?
CHARLES DE GAULLEGentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
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Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
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France cannot be France without greatness.
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Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
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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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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
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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 country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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Old age is a shipwreck.
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Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.
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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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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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