Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
CHARLES DE GAULLEPolitics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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Don’t think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
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One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.
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In politics it is necessary either to betray one’s country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
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The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.
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Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
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Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
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Betting against gold is the same as betting on governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.
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Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents.
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You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
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France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
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It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.
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Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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