I am not bad, thank you. But don’t worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.
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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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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It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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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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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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No, I’m not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!
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These people really aim very badly.
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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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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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Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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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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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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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.
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Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
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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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