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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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How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
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Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents.
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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 war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
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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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One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.
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The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
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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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The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.
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Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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The leader is always alone before bad fates.
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Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.
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I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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