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All my life I have had a certain idea of France.

Charles de Gaulle

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For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Faith France Guide Rule
Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
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Answer Myself Question Ready
France has no friends, only interests.
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Friendship Interest Selfish
It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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Food Impossible Kind Nation
The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
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Oneself Risk True Willing
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
Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
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Action Function Oneself
The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.
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Desire Domination Passion Privilege Time
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
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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Gold Government History Human Money Record
We may go to the moon, but that’ s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.
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Discover Distance Far Greatness Lying Moon
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
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
In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?
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History Man Myself Satisfaction Solitude Temptation Yourself
Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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Authority Distance Work
No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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Feeling Policy Reality Side Worth

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