Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
CHARLES DE GAULLEI grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
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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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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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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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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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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It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.
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France cannot be France without greatness.
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Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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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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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
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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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