When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.
CHARLES DE GAULLEVictory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents.
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It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
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Whereas ordinary officers must be content with behaving correctly in front of their men, the great leaders have always carefully stage-managed their effects.
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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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 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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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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Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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The future does not belong to men.
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One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
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No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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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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