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 GAULLEOne must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.
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The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.
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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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These people really aim very badly.
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My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
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When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
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France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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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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He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
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I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
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I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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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.
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A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
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Never relinquish the initiative.
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Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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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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There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.
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Old age is a shipwreck.
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Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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No, I’m not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!
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