Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.
CHARLES DE GAULLEDifficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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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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Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
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I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
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The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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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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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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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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Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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The leader is always alone before bad fates.
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