Never relinquish the initiative.
CHARLES DE GAULLEI have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
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I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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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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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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Don’t think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.
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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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I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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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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My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
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