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History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.

Charles de Gaulle

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I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
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Authority Charge Myself Respect
It’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
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Bad Better Choice Planning
One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.
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Day Death Evening Judgement Life Oneself Wait
France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.
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Build Image Nation Sword
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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Judgement Leadership Narrow Ordinary People
It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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Food Impossible Kind Nation
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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Force Leadership Love Process Strong
Character is the virtue of hard times.
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Character Hard Time Virtue
A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
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Breathe Element Excitement Leadership Public Surprise True
You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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Best Kill Live Yourself
These people really aim very badly.
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Bad Goal People
Don’t think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
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Fall Grave Man Thinking World Yourself
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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Day Flame Myself Resistance Talk
Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
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Art Ideal Politics Reality Service
For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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Dreams Glory Herself
Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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Friendship Man State
The leader is always alone before bad fates.
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Alone Bad Fate Hard Time Leadership
Never relinquish the initiative.
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Dim Initiative
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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Country Different Funny Oneself Togetherness Unity
Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
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Army Brilliant Mistake Planning Victory
To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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Advantage Choice Government
Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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Annoy Country Creation Invention
How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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Country Food Funny Government Yourself
All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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Ideas Life Myself
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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Beyond Commitment Imagination Stupidity Yourself
Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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Greatness Leadership Unknown
No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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Country Independent

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