Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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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Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
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Never relinquish the initiative.
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The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
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Character is the virtue of hard times.
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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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The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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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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For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.
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These people really aim very badly.
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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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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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Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
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How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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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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