The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.
CHARLES DE GAULLEThe leader is always alone before bad fates.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
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We may go to the moon, but that’ s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.
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The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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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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You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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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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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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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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Never relinquish the initiative.
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I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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France cannot be France without greatness.
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