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?
CHARLES DE GAULLEIn war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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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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It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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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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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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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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It’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
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The future does not belong to men.
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The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.
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