I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
CHARLES DE GAULLEI am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.
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A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
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In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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Only peril can bring the French together. One can’t impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.
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I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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We may go to the moon, but that’ s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.
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You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.
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The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.
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