One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.
CHARLES DE GAULLEThe future does not belong to men.
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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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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.
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The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
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Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
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No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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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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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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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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Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
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France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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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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