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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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A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
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Alone Country Friendship Greatness Name Worth
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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Civilization Freedom Leisure Root Work
Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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Character Face Fall Himself Man
France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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Battle France Herself Lost War
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
I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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Destiny Feeing Instrument Myself
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
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
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
How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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Country Food Funny Government Yourself
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
Old age is a shipwreck.
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Age Myself Old Perspective
I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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Myself Resistance Respect Tolerance
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
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
The leader is always alone before bad fates.
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Alone Bad Fate Hard Time Leadership

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