A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
CHARLES DE GAULLEHow can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
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These people really aim very badly.
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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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Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.
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I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
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I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
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One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
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Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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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.
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It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
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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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It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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