I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
CHARLES DE GAULLEAuthority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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Character is the virtue of hard times.
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France cannot be France without greatness.
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One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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Whatever happens, the flame of the French resistance must not be extinguished and will not be extinguished. Tomorrow, as today, I will speak on Radio London.
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In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented with anything else when one has come face to face with history?
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You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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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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The leader is always alone before bad fates.
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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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It’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
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