Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
CHARLES DE GAULLEOnce upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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I am not bad, thank you. But don’t worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.
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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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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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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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I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
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It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
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The future does not belong to men.
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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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Never relinquish the initiative.
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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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