Character is the virtue of hard times.
CHARLES DE GAULLESilence is the ultimate weapon of power.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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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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Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that’s the way he shows his passion for equality.
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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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Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
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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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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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How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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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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