Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
CHARLES DE GAULLEMen can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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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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How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
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France cannot be France without greatness.
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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.
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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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The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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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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Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
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In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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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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Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
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I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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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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