A Quote by Charles de Gaulle

The cemetery is filled with indispensable men.

Charles de Gaulle

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Cemetery Filled Indispensable Men

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Charles de Gaulle
French - Leader
November 22, 1890 - November 9, 1970

The cemetery is full of indispensable people.

Winston Churchill

Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.

Charles de Gaulle

The sea is masculine, the type of active strength. Look, what egg-shells are drifting all over it, each one, like ours, filled with men in ecstasies of terror, alternating with cockney conceit, as the sea is rough or smooth. Is this sad-colored circle an eternal cemetery?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. As Charles De Gaulle said, the cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.

Donald Rumsfeld

The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the nation's greatness. But the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable for they determine whether we use power or power uses us.

John F. Kennedy

Men who create power make an indispensable contribution to a nation's greatness. But, men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable.

Mahesh Bhatt

The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.

Pope John Paul II

The women's movement is filled with tyrants, just as men's political movements are equally filled.

Norman Mailer

Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy, but in the state, and in the schools, it is indispensable to resist the consolidation ofall men into a few men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There's an old, private cemetery here in Palm Springs, where I live, just down the street from the airport, that belongs to one of the local Native American tribes, and it occurred to me one day that if you really wanted to get away with murder, you'd kill someone, put them in a coffin and bury them in a private cemetery or, better, an abandoned one. And then suddenly this whole idea of a long con appeared before me and I had this idea of using a Jewish cemetery.

Tod Goldberg

History is a great cemetery: men, deeds, ideas are always dying as soon as they are born.

Simone de Beauvoir

So many people spend their lives chasing money and end up as the richest men in the cemetery. I don't want to be like that.

Ross Perot

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

Charles de Gaulle

There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.

Bertolt Brecht

The union of men in large masses is indispensable to the development and rapid growth of the higher faculties of men. Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization whence light and heat radiated out into the dark cold world.