I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
CHARLES DE GAULLEIn war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
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You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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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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Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
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It’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
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Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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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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When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
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The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
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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 start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.
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Only peril can bring the French together. One can’t impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.
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For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.
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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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