For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
CHARLES DE GAULLEFaced 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.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
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France cannot be France without greatness.
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Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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These people really aim very badly.
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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
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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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For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.
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I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.
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No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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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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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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