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Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.

Charles de Gaulle

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Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Answer Myself Question Ready
I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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Embarrassment Myself Revolution
I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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Destiny Feeing Instrument Myself
The leader is always alone before bad fates.
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Alone Bad Fate Hard Time Leadership
Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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Authority Distance Work
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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Beyond Commitment Imagination Stupidity Yourself
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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Determination Fatal Freedom History Man Moments
Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that’s the way he shows his passion for equality.
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Enjoyment Equality Himself Passion Privilege
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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Death Grave Man
One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.
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Dangerous Nation Oneself Production Simplicity Threat
France has no friends, only interests.
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Friendship Interest Selfish
Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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Authority Build Shelter Silence Strong Weakness
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Achievement Determination Greatness Myself
You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.
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Generosity Skin Soul Start Yourself
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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Day Flame Myself Resistance Talk
Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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Character Difficult Fulfill Himself Man
Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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Friendship Man State
Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
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Difficult Potential Realization
Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents.
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Choice Hard Inspirational Opponent Path Rival Way Yourself
Character is the virtue of hard times.
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Character Hard Time Virtue
In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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Paid Policy Risk War
These people really aim very badly.
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Bad Goal People
Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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Character Face Fall Himself Man
My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
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Country Face heavy Myself Togetherness Trial
There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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Breed Familiar Mystery Pride
Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
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Action Function Oneself
Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

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