Character is the virtue of hard times.
CHARLES DE GAULLEHe who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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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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Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.
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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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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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The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.
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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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Old age is a shipwreck.
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It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
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I am not bad, thank you. But don’t worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.
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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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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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