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In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?

Charles de Gaulle

No, I’m not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Business Myself Talk
My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Country Face heavy Myself Togetherness Trial
No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Country Independent
Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Believe Himself Politics Quite Word
Don’t think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Fall Grave Man Thinking World Yourself
In politics it is necessary either to betray one’s country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Betrayal Country Election Necessary Politics
France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Build Image Nation Sword
Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Authority Distance Work
At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Civilization Freedom Leisure Root Work
The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Build Ego Hard Perfection Pride
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Conclusion Important Myself Politics Serious
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.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Country Habit Marriage Old Time
The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Confidence Domination Elite People Time
We may go to the moon, but that’ s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Discover Distance Far Greatness Lying Moon
In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Paid Policy Risk War
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.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Determination Fatal Freedom History Man Moments

In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?

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