I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
CHARLES DE GAULLEWhereas ordinary officers must be content with behaving correctly in front of their men, the great leaders have always carefully stage-managed their effects.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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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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The future does not belong to men.
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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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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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How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
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I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
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In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented with anything else when one has come face to face with history?
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Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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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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How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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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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You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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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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All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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It’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
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