To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
CHARLES DE GAULLEThe evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.
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One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.
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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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Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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Only peril can bring the French together. One can’t impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.
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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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It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.
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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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France cannot be France without greatness.
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