In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
CHARLES DE GAULLEIn order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
CHARLES DE GAULLEA true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
CHARLES DE GAULLEAlways choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents.
CHARLES DE GAULLEHe who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
CHARLES DE GAULLEAuthority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
CHARLES DE GAULLETo govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
CHARLES DE GAULLEVictory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
CHARLES DE GAULLENever relinquish the initiative.
CHARLES DE GAULLEDeliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
CHARLES DE GAULLEFor glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
CHARLES DE GAULLEI’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
CHARLES DE GAULLEA man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.
CHARLES DE GAULLEI feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
CHARLES DE GAULLEIt’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
CHARLES DE GAULLENo policy is worth anything outside of reality.
CHARLES DE GAULLEYou have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
CHARLES DE GAULLE