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Don’t think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.

Charles de Gaulle

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Character is the virtue of hard times.
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Character Hard Time Virtue
A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.
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Attraction Character Difficult Himself Man Potential Realization
Never relinquish the initiative.
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Dim Initiative
A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
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Alone Country Friendship Greatness Name Worth
For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.
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Faith France Guide Rule
Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Climate Diplomat Rain
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
Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
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Favor Myself Talk Travel
No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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Feeling Policy Reality Side Worth
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
Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
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Adversity Bitter Himself Joy Responsibility Seek
Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Character Difficult Fulfill Himself Man
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
Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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Authority Distance Work
The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.
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Confidence Domination Elite People Time
How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Country Food Himself System Variety
You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Beyond Commitment Imagination Stupidity Yourself
Only peril can bring the French together. One can’t impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Country Different Funny Oneself Togetherness Unity
France has no friends, only interests.
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Friendship Interest Selfish
These people really aim very badly.
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Bad Goal People
The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
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Oneself Risk True Willing
Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
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Art Ideal Politics Reality Service
To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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Advantage Choice Government
Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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Genius Stop Time
He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Dumb Himself Joke Laughter
How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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Country Food Funny Government Yourself
Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Action Alone Man Oneself Work

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