I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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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The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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Old age is a shipwreck.
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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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A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
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The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.
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I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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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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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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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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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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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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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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The leader is always alone before bad fates.
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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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