There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
CHARLES DE GAULLEFrance was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.
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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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In politics it is necessary either to betray one’s country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
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France has no friends, only interests.
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Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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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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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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How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.
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France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
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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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