A Quote by Charles de Gaulle

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

Charles de Gaulle

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Men Full Indispensable

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

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

Charles de Gaulle

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 political graveyards are full of people who don't respond.

John Glenn

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

Wall Street's graveyards are filled with men who were right too soon.

William Peter Hamilton

When I was younger, I loved graveyards. They weren't spooky so much as mysterious. Each tombstone another story to uncover. Another life to learn about. Now that I'm older - I won't say how old - I hate graveyards. The only life - or rather death - I see in the tombstones is my own.

Pseudonymous Bosch

The cemetery is full of indispensable people.

Winston Churchill

I wanted to be with the men I admired rather than the Scottish Arts Council crowd, so I spent a lot of time in graveyards. You get less trouble from the dead.

Alexander Stoddart

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

The sense of community is indispensable...to full self-realization.

Herbert J. Muller

The bookstore was a parking lot for used graveyards. Thousands of graveyards were parked in rows like cars. Most of the books were out of print, and no one wanted to read them any more and the people who had read the books had died or forgotten about them, but through the organic process of music the books had become virgins again.

Richard Brautigan

We want the full works of citizenship with no reservations. We will accept nothing less . . . This condition of freedom, equality, and democracy is not the gift of gods. It is the task of men, yes, men, brave men, honest men, determined men.

A. Philip Randolph

The cemetery is filled with 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.