Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
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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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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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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Never relinquish the initiative.
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It’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
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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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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 better to have a bad method than to have none.
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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 evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
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In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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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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France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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