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I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.

Charles de Gaulle

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Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that’s the way he shows his passion for equality.
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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
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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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It’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
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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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Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
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France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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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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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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