Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
CHARLES DE GAULLEThe future does not belong to men.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
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I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
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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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Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
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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 have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.
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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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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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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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