Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
CHARLES DE GAULLEThe evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?
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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.
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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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Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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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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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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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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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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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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He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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