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.
CHARLES DE GAULLEWhen I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents.
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I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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It’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
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Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
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Old age is a shipwreck.
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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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At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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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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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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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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The leader is always alone before bad fates.
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