I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
CHARLES DE GAULLEWhen I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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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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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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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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When 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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You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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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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It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared, either in scope or in rapidity.
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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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How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
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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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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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