Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans. — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
Don't ask who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life. — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
“Have you ever seen a dictator on a run-off ballot? [Responding to the charges of a dictatorial bent, after being forced into a run-off… — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance. — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
Today we are crushed by the sheer weight of the mechanized forces hurled against us, but we can still look to the future in… — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential. — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese? — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
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