Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
CHARLES DE GAULLEThe evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.
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Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.
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It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.
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It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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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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All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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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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A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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It’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
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He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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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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