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.
CHARLES DE GAULLEI wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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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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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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I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.
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Old age is a shipwreck.
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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
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Character is the virtue of hard times.
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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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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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In politics it is necessary either to betray one’s country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
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Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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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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