More from Charles de Gaulle

  1. It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
  2. Anything can happen someday, even that an act conforming to honour and honesty can end up, at the end of the line, as a good political deci…
  3. Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
  4. The leader is always alone before bad fates.
  5. The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.
  6. Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
  7. France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.
  8. The government has no propositions to make, but orders to give.

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