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I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.

Charles de Gaulle

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I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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Myself Resistance Respect Tolerance
All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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Ideas Life Myself
These people really aim very badly.
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Bad Goal People
In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented with anything else when one has come face to face with history?
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Face Greatness History Hope Love
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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Content Effect Leadership Man Management Ordinary
In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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Paid Policy Risk War
Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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Annoy Country Creation Invention
I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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Belong Deep Man Myself
France cannot be France without greatness.
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France Greatness One Liner
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
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Achievement Determination Greatness Myself
You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
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Beyond Commitment Imagination Stupidity Yourself
You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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Adapt Fast Strategy Yourself
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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Conclusion Important Myself Politics Serious
Old age is a shipwreck.
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Age Myself Old Perspective
It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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Food Impossible Kind Nation
The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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Communism Evolution Inevitable
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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Gold Government History Human Money Record
Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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Greatness Leadership Unknown
Never relinquish the initiative.
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Dim Initiative
Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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Authority Distance Work
Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
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Command Count Importance Man
History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.
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Determination Fatal Freedom History Man Moments
I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
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Decision Harmony Myself View
Don’t think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
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Fall Grave Man Thinking World Yourself
Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that’s the way he shows his passion for equality.
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Enjoyment Equality Himself Passion Privilege
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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Myself Past Prevent Return
The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.
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Judgement Leadership Narrow Ordinary People

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