I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
CHARLES DE GAULLESilence is the ultimate weapon of power.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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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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Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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In politics it is necessary either to betray one’s country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
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The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.
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Old age is a shipwreck.
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No, I’m not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!
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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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I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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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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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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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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I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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