I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
CHARLES DE GAULLENo country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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Whereas ordinary officers must be content with behaving correctly in front of their men, the great leaders have always carefully stage-managed their effects.
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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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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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The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.
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I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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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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France has no friends, only interests.
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These people really aim very badly.
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It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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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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