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Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.

Charles de Gaulle

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I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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These people really aim very badly.
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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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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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Don’t think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
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In politics it is necessary either to betray one’s country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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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 great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
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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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Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.
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