Charles de Gaulle quotes
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“Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.”
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“How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?”
-- Charles de GaulleSource : Quoted in Ernest Mignon, Les Mots du General (1962). De Gaulle had earlier been quoted in the N.Y. Times Magazine, 29 June 1958, as saying, "How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheeses?"
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“You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.”
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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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“Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.”
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“In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.”
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“Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents”
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“The graveyards are full of indispensable men.”
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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.”
-- Charles de GaulleSource : Life Magazine, May 9, 1969.
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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.”
-- Charles de Gaulle#Inspirational Quotes #Motivational Quotes #Character Quotes
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“China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese.”
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“Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.”
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“The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.”
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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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“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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“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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“Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.”
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“How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?”
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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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“Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.”
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“You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.”
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“Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.”
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“Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself”
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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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“Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.”
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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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“Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.”
-- Charles de GaulleSource : Charles de Gaulle (1960). “The Edge of the Sword”, New York : Criterion Books
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“For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.”
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“France cannot be France without greatness.”
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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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“When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.”
-- Charles de Gaulle
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