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Charles De Gaulle Inspirational Quotes (83)

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China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese.
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I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
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I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Métro.
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In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared, either in scope or in rapidity.
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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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Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
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These people really aim very badly.
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In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented with anything else when one has come face to face with history?
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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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You'll live. Only the best get killed.
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To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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Betting against gold is the same as betting on governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.
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I cannot prevent the French from being French
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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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Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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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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The future does not belong to men.
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Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money. (On Vietnam War)
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