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

Charles de Gaulle

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Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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Genius Stop Time
Old age is a shipwreck.
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Age Myself Old Perspective
I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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Belong Deep Man Myself
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
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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Master Myself Politics Servant
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
Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
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Command Count Importance Man
No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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Country Independent
Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.
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Country Habit Marriage Old Time
I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
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Authority Charge Myself Respect
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
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
When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
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Myself Thinking
It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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Food Impossible Kind Nation
France cannot be France without greatness.
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France Greatness One Liner
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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Desire Domination Passion Privilege Time
The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
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Oneself Risk True Willing
The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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Communism Evolution Inevitable
Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
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Believe Himself Politics Quite Word
I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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Death Mindset Myself Patriot
How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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Country Food Funny Government Yourself
One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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Governement Oneself
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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Achievement Determination Greatness Myself
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
Betting against gold is the same as betting on governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.
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Gold Government History Human Money Record
Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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Attraction Difficult Embrace Himself Realization
A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
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Alone Country Friendship Greatness Name Worth

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