I am not bad, thank you. But don’t worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.
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.
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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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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
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It’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
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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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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.
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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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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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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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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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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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Character is the virtue of hard times.
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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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