Whereas ordinary officers must be content with behaving correctly in front of their men, the great leaders have always carefully stage-managed their effects.
CHARLES DE GAULLEBelgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
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You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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I am not bad, thank you. But don’t worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.
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France has no friends, only interests.
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It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.
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It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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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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Don’t think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
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Whatever happens, the flame of the French resistance must not be extinguished and will not be extinguished. Tomorrow, as today, I will speak on Radio London.
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One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.
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Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
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