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.
CHARLES DE GAULLEI wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
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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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Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that’s the way he shows his passion for equality.
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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
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I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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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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France cannot be France without greatness.
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My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
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In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.
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The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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