The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
CHARLES DE GAULLEDon’t think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
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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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Whereas ordinary officers must be content with behaving correctly in front of their men, the great leaders have always carefully stage-managed their effects.
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The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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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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In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented with anything else when one has come face to face with history?
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Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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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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A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
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At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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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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I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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