More from Charles de Gaulle

  1. 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 deci…
  2. Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
  3. Character is the virtue of hard times.
  4. The government has no propositions to make, but orders to give.
  5. It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
  6. France cannot be France without greatness.
  7. Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
  8. The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

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