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Charles de Gaulle

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I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Authority Charge Myself Respect
How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
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Country Food Himself System Variety
France cannot be France without greatness.
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France Greatness One Liner
A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
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Breathe Element Excitement Leadership Public Surprise True
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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Dangerous Nation Oneself Production Simplicity Threat
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
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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Myself Past Prevent Return
I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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Embarrassment Myself Revolution
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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Master Myself Politics Servant
Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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Action Alone Man Oneself Work
I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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Death Mindset Myself Patriot
No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Country Independent
I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Decision Harmony Myself View
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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Country Habit Marriage Old Time
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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Face Greatness History Hope Love
Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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Power Silence Ultimate Weapon Wisdom

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