Don’t think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
CHARLES DE GAULLEOne can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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It’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
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Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
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To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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These people really aim very badly.
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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
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Don’t ask me who’s influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he’s digested, and I’ve been reading all my life.
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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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I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
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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 feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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