The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.
CHARLES DE GAULLEIt 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.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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It’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
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You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
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I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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Only peril can bring the French together. One can’t impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.
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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 the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
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I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
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Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
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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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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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