One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
CHARLES DE GAULLEThe graveyards are full of indispensable men.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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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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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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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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To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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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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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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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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Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
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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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Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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Whatever happens, the flame of the French resistance must not be extinguished and will not be extinguished. Tomorrow, as today, I will speak on Radio London.
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