All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
CHARLES DE GAULLEAuthority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.
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One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
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To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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The leader is always alone before bad fates.
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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
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The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
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Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
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France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
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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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