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?
CHARLES DE GAULLEIt’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.
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The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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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 graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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Old age is a shipwreck.
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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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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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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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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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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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Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
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