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 GAULLENo, I’m not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!
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There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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The leader is always alone before bad fates.
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France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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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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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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How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
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The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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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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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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Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
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The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.
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Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.
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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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In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented with anything else when one has come face to face with history?
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