Don’t think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
CHARLES DE GAULLEThe Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
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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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A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
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Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
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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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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.
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The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.
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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.
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The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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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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For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.
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