History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.
CHARLES DE GAULLEI am not bad, thank you. But don’t worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
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No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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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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He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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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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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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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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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents.
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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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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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I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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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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