Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
CHARLES DE GAULLECharacter is the virtue of hard times.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
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It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
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One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.
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I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
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The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.
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I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
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These people really aim very badly.
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