Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
CHARLES DE GAULLENo policy is worth anything outside of reality.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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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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Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
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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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One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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It’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
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He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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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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In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared, either in scope or in rapidity.
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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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How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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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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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
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