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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.

Charles de Gaulle

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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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Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
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In politics it is necessary either to betray one’s country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
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How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.
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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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My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that’s the way he shows his passion for equality.
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To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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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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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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