Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
CHARLES DE GAULLEBelgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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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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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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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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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented with anything else when one has come face to face with history?
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One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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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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In politics it is necessary either to betray one’s country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
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France cannot be France without greatness.
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Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.
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The future does not belong to men.
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Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.
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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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