In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
CHARLES DE GAULLEYou have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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Don’t think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
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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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Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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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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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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Never relinquish the initiative.
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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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Character is the virtue of hard times.
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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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Old age is a shipwreck.
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There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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Whatever happens, the flame of the French resistance must not be extinguished and will not be extinguished. Tomorrow, as today, I will speak on Radio London.
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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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