Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
CHARLES DE GAULLEHow can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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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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Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that’s the way he shows his passion for equality.
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Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
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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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The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.
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Character is the virtue of hard times.
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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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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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I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
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