Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
CHARLES DE GAULLEMen can have friends, statesmen cannot.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
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To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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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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The leader is always alone before bad fates.
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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
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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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Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
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It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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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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Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents.
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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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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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