It’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
CHARLES DE GAULLELove is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.
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Character is the virtue of hard times.
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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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It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.
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Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
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The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.
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Old age is a shipwreck.
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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
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Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
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Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
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Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.
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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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One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
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