The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
CHARLES DE GAULLEOnly peril can bring the French together. One can’t impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.
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Only peril can bring the French together. One can’t impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.
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Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
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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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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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My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
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The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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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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Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
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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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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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I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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