There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
CHARLES DE GAULLEWhen I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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The leader is always alone before bad fates.
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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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When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.
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I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents.
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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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The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
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No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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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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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
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Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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These people really aim very badly.
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France cannot be France without greatness.
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