I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
CHARLES DE GAULLEDiplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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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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At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.
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I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
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All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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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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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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Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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