Whereas ordinary officers must be content with behaving correctly in front of their men, the great leaders have always carefully stage-managed their effects.
CHARLES DE GAULLEIn order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
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I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.
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These people really aim very badly.
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It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
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Character is the virtue of hard times.
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The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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No, I’m not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!
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Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents.
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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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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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