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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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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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Attraction Difficult Embrace Himself Realization
Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
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Action Function Oneself
France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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Battle France Herself Lost War
I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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Embarrassment Myself Revolution
Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
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Believe Himself Politics Quite Word
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Character is the virtue of hard times.
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Character Hard Time Virtue
France cannot be France without greatness.
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France Greatness One Liner
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
In politics it is necessary either to betray one’s country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
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Betrayal Country Election Necessary Politics
To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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Advantage Choice Government
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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Build Image Nation Sword
Only peril can bring the French together. One can’t impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.
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Country Different Funny Oneself Togetherness Unity
I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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Belong Deep Man Myself
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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Angry Myself Right Time Wrong
Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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Annoy Country Creation Invention

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