In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
CHARLES DE GAULLETo govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
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Betting against gold is the same as betting on governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.
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The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
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These people really aim very badly.
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Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
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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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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.
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Don’t ask me who’s influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he’s digested, and I’ve been reading all my life.
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How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
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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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All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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