You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
CHARLES DE GAULLEThe evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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Old age is a shipwreck.
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Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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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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It’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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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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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.
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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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For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.
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Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
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Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
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We may go to the moon, but that’ s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.
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Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
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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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Betting against gold is the same as betting on governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.
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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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When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
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Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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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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At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
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The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
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All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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