Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
CHARLES DE GAULLEHe who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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I am not bad, thank you. But don’t worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.
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Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that’s the way he shows his passion for equality.
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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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Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
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One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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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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When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.
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The leader is always alone before bad fates.
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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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The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.
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My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
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Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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