Character is the virtue of hard times.
CHARLES DE GAULLEYou may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented with anything else when one has come face to face with history?
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Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.
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How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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These people really aim very badly.
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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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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
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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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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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Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that’s the way he shows his passion for equality.
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Don’t ask me who’s influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he’s digested, and I’ve been reading all my life.
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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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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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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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