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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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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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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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A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.
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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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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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The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.
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There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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Breed Familiar Mystery Pride
One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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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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Fall Grave Man Thinking World Yourself
To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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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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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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