Character is the virtue of hard times.
CHARLES DE GAULLENothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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Old age is a shipwreck.
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Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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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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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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The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
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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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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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France has no friends, only interests.
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He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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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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