Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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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Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
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I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
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I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?
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The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
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When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
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For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.
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Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.
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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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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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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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There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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