Never relinquish the initiative.
CHARLES DE GAULLEOnly 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.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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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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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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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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I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
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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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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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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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France cannot be France without greatness.
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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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Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
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France has no friends, only interests.
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France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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