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No policy is worth anything outside of reality.

Charles de Gaulle

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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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Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
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A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
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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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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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In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
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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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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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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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Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.
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