Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
CHARLES DE GAULLEFrance has no friends, only interests.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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The future does not belong to men.
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Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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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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My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
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The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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Whereas ordinary officers must be content with behaving correctly in front of their men, the great leaders have always carefully stage-managed their effects.
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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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Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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Don’t think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
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Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
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