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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.

Charles de Gaulle

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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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Climate Diplomat Rain
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 have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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Adapt Fast Strategy Yourself
In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?
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History Man Myself Satisfaction Solitude Temptation Yourself
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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Dangerous Nation Oneself Production Simplicity Threat
The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
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Oneself Risk True Willing
It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared, either in scope or in rapidity.
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Compare Rapid Scope Transformation World
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
All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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Ideas Life Myself
France has no friends, only interests.
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Friendship Interest Selfish
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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Content Effect Leadership Man Management Ordinary
In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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Paid Policy Risk War
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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Death Hero Humanity Possible Sacrifice Tolerance
I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
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Decision Harmony Myself View
You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.
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Generosity Skin Soul Start Yourself
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

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