Charles de Gaulle quotes - page 2

Why do you think that at 67 I would start a career as a dictator? (Charles de Gaulle)
All my life I have had a certain idea of France. View quote
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The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute. View quote
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Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses; they last while they last. View quote
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The future does not belong to men... View quote
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The graveyards are full of indispensable men. View quote
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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power. View quote
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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless. View quote
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In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. View quote
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The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines. View quote
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At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure. (Charles de Gaulle)
The leader is always alone before bad fates. View quote
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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. View quote
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Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown. View quote
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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. View quote
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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her. View quote
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Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities. View quote
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To govern is always to choose among disadvantages. View quote
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A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless. View quote
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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. View quote
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I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously. (Charles de Gaulle)
Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself. View quote
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Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance. View quote
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China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese. View quote
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There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt. View quote
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