No, I’m not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!
CHARLES DE GAULLEDon’t think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.
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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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Betting against gold is the same as betting on governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.
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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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I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.
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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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In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents.
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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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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
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