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 GAULLEYou start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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I am not bad, thank you. But don’t worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.
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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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Old age is a shipwreck.
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There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
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All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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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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The leader is always alone before bad fates.
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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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How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
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The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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