I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
CHARLES DE GAULLEHe who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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The future does not belong to men.
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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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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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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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Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.
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How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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The leader is always alone before bad fates.
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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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Never relinquish the initiative.
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
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