France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.
CHARLES DE GAULLEFrance has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
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The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.
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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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Old age is a shipwreck.
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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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No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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Character is the virtue of hard times.
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One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.
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Only peril can bring the French together. One can’t impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.
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France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
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