There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
CHARLES DE GAULLEYou start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.
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When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.
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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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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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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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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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Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
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Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
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One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.
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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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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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Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
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No, I’m not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!
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France cannot be France without greatness.
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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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