Don’t ask me who’s influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he’s digested, and I’ve been reading all my life.
CHARLES DE GAULLEDifficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
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I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
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Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
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When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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Don’t think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
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Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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It’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
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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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In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?
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Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
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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 am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.
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