I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
CHARLES DE GAULLENothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
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All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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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, I’m not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!
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These people really aim very badly.
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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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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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How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
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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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