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In politics it is necessary either to betray one’s country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.

Charles de Gaulle

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It’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
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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
You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.
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Generosity Skin Soul Start Yourself
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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Conclusion Important Myself Politics Serious
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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Gold Government History Human Money Record
Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
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Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
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Action Function Oneself
Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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Agreement Girl Last Rose Young
Don’t ask me who’s influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he’s digested, and I’ve been reading all my life.
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Digestion Influence Life Myself Reading
In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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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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Build Ego Hard Perfection Pride
No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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Friendship Man State
Never relinquish the initiative.
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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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