Point of view Quote by Jonathan Fenby

“General [De Gaulle], you must not hate your friends more than you hate your enemies”

— Clementine Churchill

“De Gaulle at his iciest had reproached Challe: “One does not impose conditions on de Gaulle!”

— Alistair Horne

Perhaps in the long view, de Gaulle was more responsible with his troublesome interventions into our domestic politics, for unifying our country than we…

— Judy LaMarsh

“I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.’ Charles de Gaulle.”

— Ashwin Sanghi

“One does not impose conditions on de Gaulle!”

— Alistair Horne

“Charles de Gaulle said? ‘The graveyards are full of indispensable men.”

— Henry Bushkin

“Would you like to hear the latest news, that colonel we mentioned earlier has gone blind, It'll be interesting to see what he thinks…

— José Saramago

“General Jacques de Bollardière, a distinguished soldier who had fought in Norway, at El Alamein, with the maquis in the Ardennes as well as…

— Alistair Horne

“His eyes were caught in the headlights of something - foreign policy?”

— Lorrie Moore

The blurring of the line between policy and strategy] encouraged soldiers to make the preposterous claim that policy should be subservient to their conduct…

— B. H. Liddell Hart

“If a leader works hard to break the spirit of their Soldier they'll soon meet the most focused Soldier of a career.”

— Donavan Nelson Butler, Master Sergeant US Army

“A military leader thinks about casualties and losses, but a strategic one only aims the win.”

— M.F. Moonzajer