To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
CHARLES DE GAULLEDifficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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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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My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
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In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?
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Betting against gold is the same as betting on governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.
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There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.
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The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.
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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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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
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For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.
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I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
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Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
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Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
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