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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.

Charles de Gaulle

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I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
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It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
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No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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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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It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
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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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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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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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For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.
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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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France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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Battle France Herself Lost War
You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
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