How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
CHARLES DE GAULLEDifficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
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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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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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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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Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
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No, I’m not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!
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Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
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Only peril can bring the French together. One can’t impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds 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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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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France cannot be France without greatness.
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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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