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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.

Charles de Gaulle

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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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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.
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Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.
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To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
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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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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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No, I’m not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!
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Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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France cannot be France without greatness.
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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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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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In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented with anything else when one has come face to face with history?
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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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