Never relinquish the initiative.
CHARLES DE GAULLEVictory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
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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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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
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It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.
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I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
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Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.
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Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
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No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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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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One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.
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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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