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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.

Charles de Gaulle

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A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
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The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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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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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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Don’t think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
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We may go to the moon, but that’ s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.
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He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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Never relinquish the initiative.
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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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Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that’s the way he shows his passion for equality.
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How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
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The leader is always alone before bad fates.
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Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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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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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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