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I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.

Charles de Gaulle

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History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.
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No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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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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In politics it is necessary either to betray one’s country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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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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In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.
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Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
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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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France cannot be France without greatness.
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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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When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.
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