In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented with anything else when one has come face to face with history?
CHARLES DE GAULLEEvery Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that’s the way he shows his passion for equality.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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The leader is always alone before bad fates.
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Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
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No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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The future does not belong to men.
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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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France has no friends, only interests.
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Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
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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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It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared, either in scope or in rapidity.
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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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Character is the virtue of hard times.
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Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
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When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
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