I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
CHARLES DE GAULLEWhereas 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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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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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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He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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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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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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France cannot be France without greatness.
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Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
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I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
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In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented with anything else when one has come face to face with history?
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Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
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One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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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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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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Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
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Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
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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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Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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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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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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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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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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I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
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These people really aim very badly.
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