Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
CHARLES DE GAULLEOnly by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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France has no friends, only interests.
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I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.
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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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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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In politics it is necessary either to betray one’s country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
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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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Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.
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I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
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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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You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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The future does not belong to men.
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Character is the virtue of hard times.
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One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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