The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.
CHARLES DE GAULLEOnly 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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Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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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 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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Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
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Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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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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My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
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The future does not belong to men.
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It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.
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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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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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