In politics it is necessary either to betray one’s country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
CHARLES DE GAULLEIn war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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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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For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.
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Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
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Whereas ordinary officers must be content with behaving correctly in front of their men, the great leaders have always carefully stage-managed their effects.
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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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My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
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Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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I am not bad, thank you. But don’t worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.
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Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
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In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
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