Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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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No, I’m not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!
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One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.
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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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How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
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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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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
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Never relinquish the initiative.
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You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
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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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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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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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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
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France has no friends, only interests.
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Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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