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Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.

Charles de Gaulle

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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.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Day Flame Myself Resistance Talk
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.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Action Character Crisis Face Himself Responsibility
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?
CHARLES DE GAULLE

History Man Myself Satisfaction Solitude Temptation Yourself
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.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Country Habit Marriage Old Time
You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Beyond Commitment Imagination Stupidity Yourself
One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Day Death Evening Judgement Life Oneself Wait
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.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Build Ego Hard Perfection Pride
It’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Bad Better Choice Planning
Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Agreement Girl Last Rose Young
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Achievement Determination Greatness Myself
It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Bad Better
All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Ideas Life Myself
One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Dangerous Nation Oneself Production Simplicity Threat
Don’t think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Fall Grave Man Thinking World Yourself
One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Governement Oneself
I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Myself Resistance Respect Tolerance

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