Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
CHARLES DE GAULLEThe graveyards are full of indispensable men.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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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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No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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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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Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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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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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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Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
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I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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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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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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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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In politics it is necessary either to betray one’s country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
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