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Never relinquish the initiative.

Charles de Gaulle

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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?
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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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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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You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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We may go to the moon, but that’ s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.
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Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that’s the way he shows his passion for equality.
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Enjoyment Equality Himself Passion Privilege
These people really aim very badly.
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France has no friends, only interests.
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The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
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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
One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.
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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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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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To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
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