No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
CHARLES DE GAULLEHe who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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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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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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Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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Old age is a shipwreck.
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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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Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.
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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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It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
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Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents.
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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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It’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
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It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.
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