France has no friends, only interests.
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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How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
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The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.
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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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Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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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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Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents.
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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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Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
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Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
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We may go to the moon, but that’ s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.
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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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One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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