The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
CHARLES DE GAULLEHe who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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Old age is a shipwreck.
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France has no friends, only interests.
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Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
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I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.
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One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
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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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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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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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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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