In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
CHARLES DE GAULLEI grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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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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One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.
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No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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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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One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
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The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.
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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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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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We may go to the moon, but that’ s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.
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A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
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You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
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