Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
CHARLES DE GAULLEIt is better to have a bad method than to have none.
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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I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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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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A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
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Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
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It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.
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These people really aim very badly.
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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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France cannot be France without greatness.
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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
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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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Old age is a shipwreck.
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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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All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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