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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.

Charles de Gaulle

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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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In politics it is necessary either to betray one’s country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
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A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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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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Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
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It’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
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Don’t think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
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The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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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.
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Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
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One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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