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Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.

Charles de Gaulle

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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
I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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Embarrassment Myself Revolution
I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
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Authority Charge Myself Respect
He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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Dumb Himself Joke Laughter
Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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Annoy Country Creation Invention
One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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Governement Oneself
Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Character Face Fall Himself Man
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
When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
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Myself Thinking
Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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Character Difficult Fulfill Himself Man
No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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Country Independent
I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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Myself Resistance Respect Tolerance
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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Death Grave Man
Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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Authority Distance Work
I am not bad, thank you. But don’t worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.
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Death Myself Thankful
Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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Genius Stop Time
The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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Better Love Man Myself
The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
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Oneself Risk True Willing
It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
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Bad Better
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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Conclusion Important Myself Politics Serious
Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Force Leadership Love Process Strong
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
I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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Destiny Feeing Instrument Myself
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
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
When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.
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Angry Myself Right Time Wrong

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