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There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.

Charles de Gaulle

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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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No, I’m not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!
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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
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I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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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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Country Different Funny Oneself Togetherness Unity
At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
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Civilization Freedom Leisure Root Work
The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.
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Judgement Leadership Narrow Ordinary People
I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
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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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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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All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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Character is the virtue of hard times.
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