Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
CHARLES DE GAULLEWhen 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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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
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Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents.
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In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented with anything else when one has come face to face with history?
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Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
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Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
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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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One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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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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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.
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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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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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