One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.
CHARLES DE GAULLEPolitics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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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.
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In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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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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I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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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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Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
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History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.
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Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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