The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
CHARLES DE GAULLEIn war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
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France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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Only peril can bring the French together. One can’t impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.
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One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.
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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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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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The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
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No, I’m not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!
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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented with anything else when one has come face to face with history?
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Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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