Only 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.
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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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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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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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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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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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
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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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Don’t ask me who’s influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he’s digested, and I’ve been reading all my life.
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Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
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I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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Character is the virtue of hard times.
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