You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.
CHARLES DE GAULLEAdversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
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Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
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France cannot be France without greatness.
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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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Old age is a shipwreck.
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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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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.
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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
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Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
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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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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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Never relinquish the initiative.
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