I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
CHARLES DE GAULLEWe may go to the moon, but that’ s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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The future does not belong to men.
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Whereas ordinary officers must be content with behaving correctly in front of their men, the great leaders have always carefully stage-managed their effects.
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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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How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
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Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
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I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
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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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I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
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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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I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
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