We may go to the moon, but that’ s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.
CHARLES DE GAULLEGentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.
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Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents.
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These people really aim very badly.
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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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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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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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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
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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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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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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.
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France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.
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I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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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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The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.
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Never relinquish the initiative.
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It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
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Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
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In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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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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