Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
CHARLES DE GAULLEThe true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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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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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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Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
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Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.
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My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
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The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
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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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Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that’s the way he shows his passion for equality.
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Old age is a shipwreck.
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Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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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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France cannot be France without greatness.
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The leader is always alone before bad fates.
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