One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.
CHARLES DE GAULLEThe leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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It’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
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Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
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It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
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You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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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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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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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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France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.
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Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
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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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