How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
CHARLES DE GAULLEThe true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
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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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Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
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Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.
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Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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These people really aim very badly.
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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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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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History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.
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The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.
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I am not bad, thank you. But don’t worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.
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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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In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?
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A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.
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It’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
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Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents.
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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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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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France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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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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For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.
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It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.
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It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
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Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
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Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
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