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.
CHARLES DE GAULLEHe who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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The future does not belong to men.
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How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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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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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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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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Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
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No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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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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It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared, either in scope or in rapidity.
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The leader is always alone before bad fates.
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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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We may go to the moon, but that’ s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.
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Whereas ordinary officers must be content with behaving correctly in front of their men, the great leaders have always carefully stage-managed their effects.
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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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