Quote #25
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 decision.
More from Charles de Gaulle
- Character is the virtue of hard times.
- The leader is always alone before bad fates.
- It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
- Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
- Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
- The government has no propositions to make, but orders to give.
- The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.
- France cannot be France without greatness.