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France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.

Charles de Gaulle

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One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.
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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
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In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented with anything else when one has come face to face with history?
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Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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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.
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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
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Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
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It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.
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I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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We may go to the moon, but that’ s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.
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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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