Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
CHARLES DE GAULLEIt 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.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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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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Never relinquish the initiative.
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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
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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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The future does not belong to men.
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I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
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Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
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The leader is always alone before bad fates.
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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.
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France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.
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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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