Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
CHARLES DE GAULLEAt the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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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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How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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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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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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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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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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One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
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It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
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Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that’s the way he shows his passion for equality.
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No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.
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In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?
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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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