Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
CHARLES DE GAULLEAt the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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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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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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The future does not belong to men.
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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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In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
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You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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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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I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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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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The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
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A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
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France cannot be France without greatness.
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All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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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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When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.
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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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The leader is always alone before bad fates.
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It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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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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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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