Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
CHARLES DE GAULLEI have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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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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The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.
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Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
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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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You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.
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The future does not belong to men.
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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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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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
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