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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.

Charles de Gaulle

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Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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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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All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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The leader is always alone before bad fates.
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We may go to the moon, but that’ s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.
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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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In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.
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When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.
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Never relinquish the initiative.
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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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I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
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France has no friends, only interests.
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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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When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
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