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All my life I have had a certain idea of France.

Charles de Gaulle

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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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Generosity Skin Soul Start Yourself
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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Master Myself Politics Servant
No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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Country Independent
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
Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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Genius Stop Time
Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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Force Leadership Love Process Strong
I am not bad, thank you. But don’t worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.
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Death Myself Thankful
Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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Action Alone Man Oneself Work
These people really aim very badly.
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Bad Goal People
Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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Power Silence Ultimate Weapon Wisdom
Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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Friendship Man State
No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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Feeling Policy Reality Side Worth
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
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Achievement Determination Greatness Myself
He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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Dumb Himself Joke Laughter
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
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
Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
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Command Count Importance Man
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
Betting against gold is the same as betting on governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.
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Gold Government History Human Money Record
A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
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Alone Country Friendship Greatness Name Worth
France cannot be France without greatness.
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France Greatness One Liner
When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.
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Angry Myself Right Time Wrong
Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
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Army Brilliant Mistake Planning Victory
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
In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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Paid Policy Risk War
The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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Better Love Man Myself
Old age is a shipwreck.
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Age Myself Old Perspective

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