Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
CHARLES DE GAULLEGreatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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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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Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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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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How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
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Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents.
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Don’t think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
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No, I’m not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!
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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
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