I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
CHARLES DE GAULLEOne must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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Don’t think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
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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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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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It’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
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The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.
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I am not bad, thank you. But don’t worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.
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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.
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The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.
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My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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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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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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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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