A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
CHARLES DE GAULLEIt is better to have a bad method than to have none.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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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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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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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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Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.
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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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My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
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Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.
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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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Never relinquish the initiative.
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History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.
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Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
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I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.
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