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Character is the virtue of hard times.
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The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
Charles de Gaulle
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Within ten years, we shall have the means to kill 80 million Russians. I truly believe that one does not light-heartedly attack people who are able to kill 80 million Russians, even if one can kill 800 million French, that is if there were 800 million French.
Charles de Gaulle -
When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
Charles de Gaulle -
No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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I was France.
Charles de Gaulle -
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
Charles de Gaulle -
Let us be firm, pure and faithful; at the end of our sorrow, there is the greatest glory of the world, that of the men who did not give in.
Charles de Gaulle
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It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
Charles de Gaulle -
Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
Charles de Gaulle -
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
Charles de Gaulle -
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 -
I have understood you!
Charles de Gaulle -
One cannot govern with 'buts'.
Charles de Gaulle
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Now she is like everyone else.
Charles de Gaulle -
France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
Charles de Gaulle -
Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
Charles de Gaulle -
There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
Charles de Gaulle -
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 -
Anything can happen someday, even that an act conforming to honour and honesty can end up, at the end of the line, as a good political decision.
Charles de Gaulle
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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.
Charles de Gaulle -
You'll live. Only the best get killed.
Charles de Gaulle -
I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
Charles de Gaulle -
Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.
Charles de Gaulle