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.
CHARLES DE GAULLEYou start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.
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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Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that’s the way he shows his passion for equality.
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A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.
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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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I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
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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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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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The leader is always alone before bad fates.
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It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared, either in scope or in rapidity.
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Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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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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Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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