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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.

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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Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents.
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Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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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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You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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Whatever happens, the flame of the French resistance must not be extinguished and will not be extinguished. Tomorrow, as today, I will speak on Radio London.
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Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.
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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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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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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
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Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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