Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
CHARLES DE GAULLEThe graveyards are full of indispensable men.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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Betting against gold is the same as betting on governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.
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How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.
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It’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
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The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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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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In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?
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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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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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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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It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
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Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
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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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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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