A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
CHARLES DE GAULLEAuthority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
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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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The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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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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Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
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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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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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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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One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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It’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
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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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Only peril can bring the French together. One can’t impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.
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How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
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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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The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.
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My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
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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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You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.
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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
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I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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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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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.
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