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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.

Charles de Gaulle

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The future does not belong to men.
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Future Man One Liner
France has no friends, only interests.
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Friendship Interest Selfish
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
France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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Battle France Herself Lost War
Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
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Art Ideal Politics Reality Service
In politics it is necessary either to betray one’s country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
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Betrayal Country Election Necessary Politics
No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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Feeling Policy Reality Side Worth
Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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Attraction Difficult Embrace Himself Realization
There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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Breed Familiar Mystery Pride
In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?
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History Man Myself Satisfaction Solitude Temptation Yourself
All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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Ideas Life Myself
Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
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Command Count Importance Man
Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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Friendship Man State
Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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Character Face Fall Himself Man
One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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Governement Oneself
I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
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Authority Charge Myself Respect

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