It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
CHARLES DE GAULLEDifficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
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How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.
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Whereas ordinary officers must be content with behaving correctly in front of their men, the great leaders have always carefully stage-managed their effects.
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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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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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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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The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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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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