Never relinquish the initiative.
CHARLES DE GAULLEFrance cannot be France without greatness.
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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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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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France cannot be France without greatness.
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France has no friends, only interests.
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A 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.
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The leader is always alone before bad fates.
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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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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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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It’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
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You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.
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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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It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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