We may go to the moon, but that’ s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.
CHARLES DE GAULLEEvery Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that’s the way he shows his passion for equality.
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A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
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Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
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The leader is always alone before bad fates.
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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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Betting against gold is the same as betting on governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.
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No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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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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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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These people really aim very badly.
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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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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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I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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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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