I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
CHARLES DE GAULLEFaced 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.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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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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All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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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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Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
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Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
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Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
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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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When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
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You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
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