There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
CHARLES DE GAULLEEvery Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that’s the way he shows his passion for equality.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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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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The leader is always alone before bad fates.
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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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Only peril can bring the French together. One can’t impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.
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You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.
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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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Character is the virtue of hard times.
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These people really aim very badly.
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Never relinquish the initiative.
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No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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France has no friends, only interests.
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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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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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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
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It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared, either in scope or in rapidity.
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I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
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Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
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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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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
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How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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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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