When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.
CHARLES DE GAULLEThe better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
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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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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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Never relinquish the initiative.
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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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The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.
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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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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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Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
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I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.
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It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
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