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A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.

Charles de Gaulle

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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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It’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
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The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.
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There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
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One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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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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How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
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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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Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
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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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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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