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

Charles de Gaulle

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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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Discover Distance Far Greatness Lying Moon
Old age is a shipwreck.
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Age Myself Old Perspective
All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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Ideas Life Myself
Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
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Adversity Bitter Himself Joy Responsibility Seek
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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Force Leadership Love Process Strong
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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Conclusion Important Myself Politics Serious
Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
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Army Brilliant Mistake Planning Victory
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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Determination Fatal Freedom History Man Moments
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
In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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Paid Policy Risk War
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
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Love Nation Patriot People Yourself
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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Master Myself Politics Servant
Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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Friendship Man State
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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Angry Myself Right Time Wrong
Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
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Art Ideal Politics Reality Service
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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Country Habit Marriage Old Time

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