Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
CHARLES DE GAULLEBelgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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These people really aim very badly.
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It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
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Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
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Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents.
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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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The leader is always alone before bad fates.
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Don’t ask me who’s influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he’s digested, and I’ve been reading all my life.
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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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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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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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