• The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.

    Charles de Gaulle: The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.
    Charles de Gaulle (1960). “The Edge of the Sword”, New York : Criterion Books