Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
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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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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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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I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
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Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
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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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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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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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When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
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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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It’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
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Old age is a shipwreck.
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How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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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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Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
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