Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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.
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At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
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Don’t think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
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It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
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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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Old age is a shipwreck.
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The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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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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Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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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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How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
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The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.
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I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
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When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
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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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We may go to the moon, but that’ s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.
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Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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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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France cannot be France without greatness.
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