Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
CHARLES DE GAULLEIn 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?
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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It’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
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I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
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Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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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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For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.
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The future does not belong to men.
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The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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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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No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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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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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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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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