We may go to the moon, but that’ s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.
CHARLES DE GAULLEThe perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.
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Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
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It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
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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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Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
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Never relinquish the initiative.
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In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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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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The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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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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The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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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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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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Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
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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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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.
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No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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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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I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that’s the way he shows his passion for equality.
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France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.
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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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