Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
CHARLES DE GAULLEDifficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that’s the way he shows his passion for equality.
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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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Don’t ask me who’s influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he’s digested, and I’ve been reading all my life.
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The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.
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These people really aim very badly.
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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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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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At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
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Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
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You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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In politics it is necessary either to betray one’s country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
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Never relinquish the initiative.
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