I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
CHARLES DE GAULLEYou have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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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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I am not bad, thank you. But don’t worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.
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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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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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When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
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To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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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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You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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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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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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My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
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Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
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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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Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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