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How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?

Charles de Gaulle

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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Destiny Feeing Instrument Myself
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
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Love Nation Patriot People Yourself
France has no friends, only interests.
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Friendship Interest Selfish
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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Achievement Endeavour Leadership Remember
Character is the virtue of hard times.
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Character Hard Time Virtue
Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Action Alone Man Oneself Work
One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Dangerous Nation Oneself Production Simplicity Threat
Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
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Difficult Potential Realization
The future does not belong to men.
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Future Man One Liner
France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Build Image Nation Sword
Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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Character Difficult Fulfill Himself Man
To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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Advantage Choice Government
Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Choice Hard Inspirational Opponent Path Rival Way Yourself
All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Ideas Life Myself
Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Action Character Crisis Face Himself Responsibility
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.
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Build Ego Hard Perfection Pride
He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Dumb Himself Joke Laughter
When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
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Myself Thinking
I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
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Myself Past Prevent Return
The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Desire Domination Passion Privilege Time
Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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Annoy Country Creation Invention
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.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Compare Rapid Scope Transformation World
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Achievement Determination Greatness Myself
Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Answer Myself Question Ready
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?
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Face Greatness History Hope Love
Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Authority Distance Work
The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Judgement Leadership Narrow Ordinary People

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