The leader is always alone before bad fates.
CHARLES DE GAULLESince a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.
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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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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
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The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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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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It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.
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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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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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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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Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
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Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
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He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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