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

Charles de Gaulle

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The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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Better Love Man Myself
Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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Authority Distance Work
Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.
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Action Character Crisis Face Himself Responsibility
How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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Country Food Funny Government Yourself
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
One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.
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Day Death Evening Judgement Life Oneself Wait
Whereas ordinary officers must be content with behaving correctly in front of their men, the great leaders have always carefully stage-managed their effects.
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Content Effect Leadership Man Management Ordinary
The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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Communism Evolution Inevitable
France has no friends, only interests.
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Friendship Interest Selfish
I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
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Myself Past Prevent Return
My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
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Country Face heavy Myself Togetherness Trial
I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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Death Mindset Myself Patriot
Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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Power Silence Ultimate Weapon Wisdom
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
France cannot be France without greatness.
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France Greatness One Liner
Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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Character Difficult Fulfill Himself Man
Never relinquish the initiative.
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Dim Initiative
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
There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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Breed Familiar Mystery Pride
I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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Embarrassment Myself Revolution
He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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Dumb Himself Joke Laughter
Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
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Climate Diplomat Rain
To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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Advantage Choice Government
One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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Governement Oneself
How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
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Country Food Himself System Variety
When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
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Myself Thinking
Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
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Army Brilliant Mistake Planning Victory

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