I am not bad, thank you. But don’t worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.
CHARLES DE GAULLEGenius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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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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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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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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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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No, I’m not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!
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Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
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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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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.
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