I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
CHARLES DE GAULLEOnly by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
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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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I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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France cannot be France without greatness.
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Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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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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Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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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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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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Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
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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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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.
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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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