Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
CHARLES DE GAULLEWhen I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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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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One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.
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Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
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When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
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Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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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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I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
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I am not bad, thank you. But don’t worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.
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Whereas ordinary officers must be content with behaving correctly in front of their men, the great leaders have always carefully stage-managed their effects.
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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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Old age is a shipwreck.
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Hearing 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.
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Never relinquish the initiative.
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I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
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