How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
CHARLES DE GAULLEDiplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
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You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.
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The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
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It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared, either in scope or in rapidity.
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I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
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For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.
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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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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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