All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
CHARLES DE GAULLEI am not bad, thank you. But don’t worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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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?
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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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The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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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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To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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Never relinquish the initiative.
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These people really aim very badly.
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The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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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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I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
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A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.
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I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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