Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
CHARLES DE GAULLEHearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented with anything else when one has come face to face with history?
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The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
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Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
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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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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
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These people really aim very badly.
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I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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France cannot be France without greatness.
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Whereas ordinary officers must be content with behaving correctly in front of their men, the great leaders have always carefully stage-managed their effects.
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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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Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
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My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
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It 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.
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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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