Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
CHARLES DE GAULLELeaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
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The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.
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I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.
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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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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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Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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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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There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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