All Charles de Gaulle Quotes
Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses; they last while they last.
Charles de Gaulle
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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.
Charles de Gaulle
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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.
Charles de Gaulle
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Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
Charles de Gaulle
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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.
Charles de Gaulle
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Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.
Charles de Gaulle
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The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.
Charles de Gaulle
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Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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