Whereas ordinary officers must be content with behaving correctly in front of their men, the great leaders have always carefully stage-managed their effects.
CHARLES DE GAULLEIt’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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Betting against gold is the same as betting on governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.
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One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.
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When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
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How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
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He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents.
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Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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Don’t think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
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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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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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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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The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.
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I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
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