Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
CHARLES DE GAULLEYou’ll live. Only the best get killed.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
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One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 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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One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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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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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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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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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
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The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.
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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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The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
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