Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
CHARLES DE GAULLEPolitics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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No, I’m not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!
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I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.
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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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I am not bad, thank you. But don’t worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.
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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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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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Don’t think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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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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Never relinquish the initiative.
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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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