I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
CHARLES DE GAULLEDon’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.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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Old age is a shipwreck.
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The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.
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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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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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You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
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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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I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
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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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France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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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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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.
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How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
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Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
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The future does not belong to men.
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There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
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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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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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Never relinquish the initiative.
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My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
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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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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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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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