The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
CHARLES DE GAULLEOnly by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.
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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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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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I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
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The future does not belong to men.
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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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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?
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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
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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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Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
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Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
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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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I am not bad, thank you. But don’t worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.
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