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In politics it is necessary either to betray one’s country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.

Charles de Gaulle

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It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared, either in scope or in rapidity.
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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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Conclusion Important Myself Politics Serious
Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.
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Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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Death Mindset Myself Patriot
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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Death Grave Man
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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A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
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Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
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Climate Diplomat Rain
I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
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Myself Past Prevent Return
Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
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Art Ideal Politics Reality Service
The future does not belong to men.
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Future Man One Liner
Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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Friendship Man State
He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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Dumb Himself Joke Laughter
No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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