Don’t think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
CHARLES DE GAULLEAll my life I have had a certain idea of France.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
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The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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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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France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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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 desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.
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The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.
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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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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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Old age is a shipwreck.
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France cannot be France without greatness.
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