In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
CHARLES DE GAULLEA true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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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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Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
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The leader is always alone before bad fates.
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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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Don’t think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
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When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.
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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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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.
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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
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You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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