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Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents.

Charles de Gaulle

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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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Content Effect Leadership Man Management Ordinary
No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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Feeling Policy Reality Side Worth
Character is the virtue of hard times.
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Character Hard Time Virtue
Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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Attraction Difficult Embrace Himself Realization
I am not bad, thank you. But don’t worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.
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Death Myself Thankful
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
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Achievement Determination Greatness Myself
It’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
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Bad Better Choice Planning
The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.
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Judgement Leadership Narrow Ordinary People
Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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Greatness Leadership Unknown
Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents.
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Choice Hard Inspirational Opponent Path Rival Way Yourself
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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Master Myself Politics Servant
Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
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Army Brilliant Mistake Planning Victory
Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
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Art Ideal Politics Reality Service
I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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Embarrassment Myself Revolution
The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
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Oneself Risk True Willing
Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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Genius Stop Time
Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
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Adversity Bitter Himself Joy Responsibility Seek
How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
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Country Food Himself System Variety
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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Angry Myself Right Time Wrong
You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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Best Kill Live Yourself
To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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Advantage Choice Government
All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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Ideas Life Myself
The leader is always alone before bad fates.
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Alone Bad Fate Hard Time Leadership
He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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Dumb Himself Joke Laughter
Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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Action Alone Man Oneself Work
Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
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Action Function Oneself
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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Action Character Crisis Face Himself Responsibility

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