Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
CHARLES DE GAULLEThe true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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Whatever happens, the flame of the French resistance must not be extinguished and will not be extinguished. Tomorrow, as today, I will speak on Radio London.
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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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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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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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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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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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Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
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How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
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A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.
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How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
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He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
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Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
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