The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.
CHARLES DE GAULLEAuthority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
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Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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France cannot be France without greatness.
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The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
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France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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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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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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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
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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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It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared, either in scope or in rapidity.
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