Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.
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You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?
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A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.
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How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
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Don’t think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
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I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
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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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The leader is always alone before bad fates.
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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
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The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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Character is the virtue of hard times.
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It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
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