France has no friends, only interests.
CHARLES DE GAULLEOld age is a shipwreck.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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Never relinquish the initiative.
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One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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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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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?
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When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.
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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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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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Character is the virtue of hard times.
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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Old age is a shipwreck.
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How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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