In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented with anything else when one has come face to face with history?
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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Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
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Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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Don’t think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
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Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents.
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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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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I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
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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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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 am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
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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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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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To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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