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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.

Charles de Gaulle

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Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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Authority Build Shelter Silence Strong Weakness
You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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Adapt Fast Strategy Yourself
No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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Feeling Policy Reality Side Worth
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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Judgement Leadership Narrow Ordinary People
It’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
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Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
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Action Function Oneself
Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.
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Country Habit Marriage Old Time
I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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France has no friends, only interests.
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Friendship Interest Selfish
Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
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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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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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These people really aim very badly.
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Bad Goal People
History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.
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Determination Fatal Freedom History Man Moments
Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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Action Alone Man Oneself Work
It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared, either in scope or in rapidity.
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