Never relinquish the initiative.
CHARLES DE GAULLESilence is the ultimate weapon of power.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.
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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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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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I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared, either in scope or in rapidity.
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Betting against gold is the same as betting on governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.
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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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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.
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There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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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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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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