Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
CHARLES DE GAULLEThe better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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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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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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It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
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Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that’s the way he shows his passion for equality.
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Old age is a shipwreck.
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One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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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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The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.
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Character is the virtue of hard times.
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All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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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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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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The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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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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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
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I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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