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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.

Charles de Gaulle

It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Food Impossible Kind Nation
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Love Nation Patriot People Yourself
Don’t ask me who’s influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he’s digested, and I’ve been reading all my life.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Digestion Influence Life Myself Reading
No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Country Independent
At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Civilization Freedom Leisure Root Work
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?
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Face Greatness History Hope Love
Whereas ordinary officers must be content with behaving correctly in front of their men, the great leaders have always carefully stage-managed their effects.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Content Effect Leadership Man Management Ordinary
Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Greatness Leadership Unknown
It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Bad Better
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.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Favor Myself Talk Travel
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Master Myself Politics Servant
Don’t think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Fall Grave Man Thinking World Yourself
I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Myself Past Prevent Return
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.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Action Character Crisis Face Himself Responsibility
Betting against gold is the same as betting on governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Gold Government History Human Money Record
You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Best Kill Live Yourself
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Conclusion Important Myself Politics Serious
It’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Bad Better Choice Planning
To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Advantage Choice Government
A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Breathe Element Excitement Leadership Public Surprise True
Whatever happens, the flame of the French resistance must not be extinguished and will not be extinguished. Tomorrow, as today, I will speak on Radio London.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Day Flame Myself Resistance Talk
The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Better Love Man Myself
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.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Determination Fatal Freedom History Man Moments
France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Build Image Nation Sword
Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Character Face Fall Himself Man
The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Desire Domination Passion Privilege Time
There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Breed Familiar Mystery Pride

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