You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
CHARLES DE GAULLEEvery Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that’s the way he shows his passion for equality.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
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France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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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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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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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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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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Don’t think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
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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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Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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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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You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.
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These people really aim very badly.
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