It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
CHARLES DE GAULLEThe leader is always alone before bad fates.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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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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The future does not belong to men.
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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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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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Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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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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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
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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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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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