No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
CHARLES DE GAULLECharacter is the virtue of hard times.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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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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France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.
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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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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
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Whatever happens, the flame of the French resistance must not be extinguished and will not be extinguished. Tomorrow, as today, I will speak on Radio London.
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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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France has no friends, only interests.
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It’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
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When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
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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 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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