I am not bad, thank you. But don’t worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.
CHARLES DE GAULLEIt is better to have a bad method than to have none.
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’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
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Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
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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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How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.
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It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.
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One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.
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The leader is always alone before bad fates.
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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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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
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I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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