Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
CHARLES DE GAULLEI 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.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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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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Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.
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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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All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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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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The future does not belong to men.
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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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These people really aim very badly.
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He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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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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I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
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