It’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
CHARLES DE GAULLENothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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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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The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.
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There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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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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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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Old age is a shipwreck.
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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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Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
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In politics it is necessary either to betray one’s country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
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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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The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.
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