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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.

Charles de Gaulle

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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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No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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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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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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Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.
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Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
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A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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Genius Stop Time
It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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Food Impossible Kind Nation
Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents.
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It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
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Don’t think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
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Fall Grave Man Thinking World Yourself
I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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Myself Resistance Respect Tolerance

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