In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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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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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France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
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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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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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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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France cannot be France without greatness.
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The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.
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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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One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.
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Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
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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 Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.
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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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