I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
CHARLES DE GAULLEI have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
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We may go to the moon, but that’ s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.
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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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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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Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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Character is the virtue of hard times.
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It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.
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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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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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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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One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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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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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
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