All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
CHARLES DE GAULLEDeliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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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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No, I’m not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!
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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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The future does not belong to men.
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How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
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These people really aim very badly.
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How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.
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I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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It’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
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Whereas ordinary officers must be content with behaving correctly in front of their men, the great leaders have always carefully stage-managed their effects.
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No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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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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To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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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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History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.
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Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
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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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