Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
CHARLES DE GAULLEThe future does not belong to men.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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These people really aim very badly.
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Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.
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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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Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
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In politics it is necessary either to betray one’s country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
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Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.
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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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A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
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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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The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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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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