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?
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.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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Character is the virtue of hard times.
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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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How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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France cannot be France without greatness.
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It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
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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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To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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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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I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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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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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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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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