Character is the virtue of hard times.
CHARLES DE GAULLEI have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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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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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
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Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.
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In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.
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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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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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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
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Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
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I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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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.
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All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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