Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.
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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My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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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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Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
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Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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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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The future does not belong to men.
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I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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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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The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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These people really aim very badly.
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For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.
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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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A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
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The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.
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France cannot be France without greatness.
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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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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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Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents.
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Betting against gold is the same as betting on governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.
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