A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
CHARLES DE GAULLEWhen I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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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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Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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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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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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Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
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Don’t think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
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Character is the virtue of hard times.
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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
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Whatever happens, the flame of the French resistance must not be extinguished and will not be extinguished. Tomorrow, as today, I will speak on Radio London.
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The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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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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Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
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