Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
CHARLES DE GAULLEThe true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
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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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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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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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Never relinquish the initiative.
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Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents.
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France cannot be France without greatness.
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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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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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It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared, either in scope or in rapidity.
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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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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 future does not belong to men.
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