I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
CHARLES DE GAULLEGreatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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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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One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.
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I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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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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History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.
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How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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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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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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Old age is a shipwreck.
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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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These people really aim very badly.
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