For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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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These people really aim very badly.
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France cannot be France without greatness.
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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.
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He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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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 tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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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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Whatever happens, the flame of the French resistance must not be extinguished and will not be extinguished. Tomorrow, as today, I will speak on Radio London.
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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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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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France has no friends, only interests.
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It’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
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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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