To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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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All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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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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He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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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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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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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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A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
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The leader is always alone before bad fates.
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There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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