Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
CHARLES DE GAULLEIt is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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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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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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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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You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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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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Only peril can bring the French together. One can’t impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.
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To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
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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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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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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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I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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