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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I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that’s the way he shows his passion for equality.
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Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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The future does not belong to men.
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Don’t think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
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You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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France cannot be France without greatness.
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Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
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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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My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
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The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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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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All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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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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Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents.
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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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