You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
CHARLES DE GAULLEMen can have friends, statesmen cannot.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that’s the way he shows his passion for equality.
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When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
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These people really aim very badly.
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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 feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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Character is the virtue of hard times.
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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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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
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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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I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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In politics it is necessary either to betray one’s country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
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Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
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