France has no friends, only interests.
CHARLES DE GAULLEI feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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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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I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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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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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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France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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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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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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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.
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Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
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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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My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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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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The future does not belong to men.
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The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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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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For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.
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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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I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
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Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
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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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Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
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He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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It’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
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