The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
CHARLES DE GAULLEThese people really aim very badly.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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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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No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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We may go to the moon, but that’ s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.
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I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
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Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
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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 great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
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Old age is a shipwreck.
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Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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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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Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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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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