I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
CHARLES DE GAULLEWhen I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents.
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No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.
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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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Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.
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In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?
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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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Never relinquish the initiative.
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A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
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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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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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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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Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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