Old age is a shipwreck.
CHARLES DE GAULLEDifficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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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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One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.
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France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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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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France cannot be France without greatness.
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The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.
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All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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Character is the virtue of hard times.
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I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
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To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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