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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.

Charles de Gaulle

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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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Love Nation Patriot People Yourself
These people really aim very badly.
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Bad Goal People
One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.
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Dangerous Nation Oneself Production Simplicity Threat
You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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Best Kill Live Yourself
No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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Feeling Policy Reality Side Worth
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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Master Myself Politics Servant
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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Compare Rapid Scope Transformation World
Only peril can bring the French together. One can’t impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.
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Country Different Funny Oneself Togetherness Unity
Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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Power Silence Ultimate Weapon Wisdom
I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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Myself Resistance Respect Tolerance
In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?
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History Man Myself Satisfaction Solitude Temptation Yourself
One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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Governement Oneself
A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.
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Attraction Character Difficult Himself Man Potential Realization
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
The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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Better Love Man Myself
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.
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Digestion Influence Life Myself Reading

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