Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
CHARLES DE GAULLEHe who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.
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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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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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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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Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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The future does not belong to men.
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In politics it is necessary either to betray one’s country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
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I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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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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Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
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These people really aim very badly.
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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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I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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