Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
CHARLES DE GAULLELeaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.
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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
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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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Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
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Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
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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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Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.
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I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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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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These people really aim very badly.
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When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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The future does not belong to men.
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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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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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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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You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.
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Character is the virtue of hard times.
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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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Don’t think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
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Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
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I am not bad, thank you. But don’t worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.
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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 is always alone before bad fates.
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