The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
CHARLES DE GAULLETo govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
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There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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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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Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
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All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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Whatever happens, the flame of the French resistance must not be extinguished and will not be extinguished. Tomorrow, as today, I will speak on Radio London.
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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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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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These people really aim very badly.
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Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents.
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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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