The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
CHARLES DE GAULLENo country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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These people really aim very badly.
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The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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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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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
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There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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Don’t ask me who’s influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he’s digested, and I’ve been reading all my life.
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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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Never relinquish the initiative.
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The future does not belong to men.
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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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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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