One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
CHARLES DE GAULLEA great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
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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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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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Only peril can bring the French together. One can’t impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.
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A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.
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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
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Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
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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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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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