A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
CHARLES DE GAULLEIn order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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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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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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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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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
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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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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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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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Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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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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