The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
CHARLES DE GAULLEIn 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?
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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I am not bad, thank you. But don’t worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.
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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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In politics it is necessary either to betray one’s country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
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France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.
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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
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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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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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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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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.
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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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