Old age is a shipwreck.
CHARLES DE GAULLEOne cannot govern with ‘buts’.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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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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I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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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 am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.
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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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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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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.
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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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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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Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that’s the way he shows his passion for equality.
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These people really aim very badly.
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