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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.

Charles de Gaulle

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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Action Alone Man Oneself Work
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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Content Effect Leadership Man Management Ordinary
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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Judgement Leadership Narrow Ordinary People
No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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Feeling Policy Reality Side Worth
France has no friends, only interests.
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Friendship Interest Selfish
Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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Authority Build Shelter Silence Strong Weakness
The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.
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Confidence Domination Elite People Time
You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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Adapt Fast Strategy Yourself
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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Face Greatness History Hope Love
Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
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Climate Diplomat Rain
I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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Death Mindset Myself Patriot
In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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Paid Policy Risk War
Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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Annoy Country Creation Invention
All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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Ideas Life Myself
No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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Country Independent
It’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
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Bad Better Choice Planning

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