Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
CHARLES DE GAULLENo policy is worth anything outside of reality.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
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I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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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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When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.
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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents.
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A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.
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I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
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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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Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.
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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
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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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