Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
CHARLES DE GAULLEI grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents.
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You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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France has no friends, only interests.
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In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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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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Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.
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I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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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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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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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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France cannot be France without greatness.
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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
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