You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
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These people really aim very badly.
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I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
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France cannot be France without greatness.
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The future does not belong to men.
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Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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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 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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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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When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.
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Don’t ask me who’s influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he’s digested, and I’ve been reading all my life.
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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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It’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
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In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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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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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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Don’t think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
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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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Only peril can bring the French together. One can’t impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.
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Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
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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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We may go to the moon, but that’ s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.
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