Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
CHARLES DE GAULLELove is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that’s the way he shows his passion for equality.
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There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
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The leader is always alone before bad fates.
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
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How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.
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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
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How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different 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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