Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
CHARLES DE GAULLEA true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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It’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
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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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These people really aim very badly.
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One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.
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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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One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.
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The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.
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There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.
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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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At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
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The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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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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