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.
CHARLES DE GAULLEIt is better to have a bad method than to have none.
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Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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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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Betting against gold is the same as betting on governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.
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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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Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
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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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It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
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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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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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Never relinquish the initiative.
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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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I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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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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These people really aim very badly.
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