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| Charles de Gaulle
A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends. A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty,
since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can
realize his potentialities.A system meant for common use should rarely need uncommon knowledge.China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese. Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. as soon as it rains they drown in every drop. Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life. Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war. Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.How can anyone govern a nation that has 246 different kinds of cheese? How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese? How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese? How can you expect to govern a country that has two hundred and forty-six kinds of cheese? How can you govern a country with two hundred and forty six varieties of cheese? I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Métro. I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money. I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them. In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant. In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?It is our character that supports the promise of our future - far more than
particular government programs or policies.It will not be any European statesman who will unite Europe: Europe will be united by the Chinese. Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me… and I do not have to answer back. My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial. No comment is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so. Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence. Old age is a shipwreck. Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time. One cannot govern with "buts."One must wait until evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death. Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first. Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him. The graveyards are full of indispensable men. The great leaders have always carefully stage-managed
their effects.
The man of character finds an especial attractiveness in difficulty since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities. To govern is always to choose among disadvantages. Treaties are like roses and young girls – they last while they last. When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless. You may be sure that the americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination. [Force] is the prerequisite of movement and the
midwife of progress.
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