I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
CHARLES DE GAULLEDeliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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These people really aim very badly.
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It’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
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Don’t ask me who’s influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he’s digested, and I’ve been reading all my life.
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All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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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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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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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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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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In politics it is necessary either to betray one’s country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
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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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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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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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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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Whatever happens, the flame of the French resistance must not be extinguished and will not be extinguished. Tomorrow, as today, I will speak on Radio London.
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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.
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