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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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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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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 Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.
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Men 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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Old age is a shipwreck.
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Whatever happens, the flame of the French resistance must not be extinguished and will not be extinguished. Tomorrow, as today, I will speak on Radio London.
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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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At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
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Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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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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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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How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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Character is the virtue of hard times.
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Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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