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Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.

Charles de Gaulle

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The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
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Oneself Risk True Willing
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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Face Greatness History Hope Love
A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
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Breathe Element Excitement Leadership Public Surprise True
Whatever happens, the flame of the French resistance must not be extinguished and will not be extinguished. Tomorrow, as today, I will speak on Radio London.
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Day Flame Myself Resistance Talk
Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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Authority Build Shelter Silence Strong Weakness
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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Country Habit Marriage Old Time
How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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Country Food Funny Government Yourself
He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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Dumb Himself Joke Laughter
It’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
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Bad Better Choice Planning
There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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Breed Familiar Mystery Pride
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
Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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Authority Distance Work
You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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Adapt Fast Strategy Yourself
When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
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Myself Thinking
Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.
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Achievement Endeavour Leadership Remember
No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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Feeling Policy Reality Side Worth

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