Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
CHARLES DE GAULLEThe better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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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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France has no friends, only interests.
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Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
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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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Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
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I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
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Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
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Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
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One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.
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Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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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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The leader is always alone before bad fates.
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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?
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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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