He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
CHARLES DE GAULLEWhereas ordinary officers must be content with behaving correctly in front of their men, the great leaders have always carefully stage-managed their effects.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.
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Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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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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The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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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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Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that’s the way he shows his passion for equality.
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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 graveyards 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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Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
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The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.
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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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