The leader is always alone before bad fates.
CHARLES DE GAULLELeaders 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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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
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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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Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
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Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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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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Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.
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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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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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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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