Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.
CHARLES DE GAULLEThe future does not belong to men.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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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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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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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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It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
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One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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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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No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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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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Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
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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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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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One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.
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