You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
CHARLES DE GAULLEHow can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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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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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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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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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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When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
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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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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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Character is the virtue of hard times.
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Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
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The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.
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Never relinquish the initiative.
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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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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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Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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