The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
CHARLES DE GAULLEIn war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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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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I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
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Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
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Only peril can bring the French together. One can’t impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.
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There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
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Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that’s the way he shows his passion for equality.
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The future does not belong to men.
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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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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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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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To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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