Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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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Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
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France cannot be France without greatness.
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To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
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It’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
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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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Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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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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Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
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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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It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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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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