The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.
CHARLES DE GAULLENo country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
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Old age is a shipwreck.
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My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
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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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Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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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 desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.
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When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
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Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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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 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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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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I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
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Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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