I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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These people really aim very badly.
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Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
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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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When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.
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History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.
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It’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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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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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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There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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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 leader is always alone before bad fates.
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Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
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To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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