France cannot be France without greatness.
CHARLES DE GAULLEWhereas ordinary officers must be content with behaving correctly in front of their men, the great leaders have always carefully stage-managed their effects.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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Never relinquish the initiative.
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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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Old age is a shipwreck.
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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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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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Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
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Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
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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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The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.
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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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No, I’m not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!
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Character is the virtue of hard times.
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I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
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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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Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
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