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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.

Charles de Gaulle

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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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My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
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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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Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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The leader is always alone before bad fates.
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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.
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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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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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He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
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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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The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
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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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France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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