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France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.

Charles de Gaulle

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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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Build Ego Hard Perfection Pride
A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
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Alone Country Friendship Greatness Name Worth
Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
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Command Count Importance Man
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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Action Character Crisis Face Himself Responsibility
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
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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Master Myself Politics Servant
How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
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Different Food Government Kind Nation Rule
Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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Attraction Difficult Embrace Himself Realization
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
Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
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Believe Himself Politics Quite Word
The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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Communism Evolution Inevitable
Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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Annoy Country Creation Invention
I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
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Myself Past Prevent Return
How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
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Country Food Himself System Variety
I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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Embarrassment Myself Revolution
The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
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Oneself Risk True Willing

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