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.
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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All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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It’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
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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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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.
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Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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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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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.
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Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
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Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents.
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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 have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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