Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
CHARLES DE GAULLESilence is the ultimate weapon of power.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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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 country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that’s the way he shows his passion for equality.
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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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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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I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
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Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents.
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When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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Don’t ask me who’s influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he’s digested, and I’ve been reading all my life.
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Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
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