Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
CHARLES DE GAULLEDiplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
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France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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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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Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
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Character is the virtue of hard times.
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France cannot be France without greatness.
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Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
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In politics it is necessary either to betray one’s country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
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To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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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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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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I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.
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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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