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My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.

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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Love Nation Patriot People Yourself
I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
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Authority Charge Myself Respect
I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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Belong Deep Man Myself
The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.
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Confidence Domination Elite People Time
Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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Agreement Girl Last Rose Young
It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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Food Impossible Kind Nation
In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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Paid Policy Risk War
You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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Adapt Fast Strategy 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
Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
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Climate Diplomat Rain
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
One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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Governement Oneself
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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Compare Rapid Scope Transformation World
How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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Country Food Funny Government Yourself
To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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Advantage Choice Government
Never relinquish the initiative.
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Dim Initiative
One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.
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Day Death Evening Judgement Life Oneself Wait
In politics it is necessary either to betray one’s country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
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Betrayal Country Election Necessary Politics
Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
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Action Function Oneself
No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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Country Independent
The future does not belong to men.
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Future Man One Liner
In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented with anything else when one has come face to face with history?
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Face Greatness History Hope Love
France has no friends, only interests.
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Friendship Interest Selfish
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
These people really aim very badly.
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Bad Goal People
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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Country Habit Marriage Old Time
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

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