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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.

Charles de Gaulle

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Conclusion Important Myself Politics Serious
You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Generosity Skin Soul Start Yourself
Old age is a shipwreck.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Age Myself Old Perspective
Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Genius Stop Time
I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Decision Harmony Myself View
Don’t think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Fall Grave Man Thinking World Yourself
Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Friendship Man State
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.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Day Flame Myself Resistance Talk
France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Build Image Nation Sword
For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Faith France Guide Rule
At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Civilization Freedom Leisure Root Work
All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Ideas Life Myself
Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Country Habit Marriage Old Time
The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Build Ego Hard Perfection Pride
One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Dangerous Nation Oneself Production Simplicity Threat
Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Character Difficult Fulfill Himself Man

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