I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
CHARLES DE GAULLESilence is the ultimate weapon of power.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.
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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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In politics it is necessary either to betray one’s country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
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It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
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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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Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
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I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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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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For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.
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You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
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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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Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
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Don’t ask me who’s influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he’s digested, and I’ve been reading all my life.
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