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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.

Charles de Gaulle

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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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Character Difficult Fulfill Himself Man
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
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
It’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
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Bad Better Choice Planning
Never relinquish the initiative.
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Dim Initiative
It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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Food Impossible Kind Nation
In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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Paid Policy Risk War
No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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Feeling Policy Reality Side Worth
How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
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Country Food Himself System Variety
France cannot be France without greatness.
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France Greatness One Liner
In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented with anything else when one has come face to face with history?
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Face Greatness History Hope Love
There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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Breed Familiar Mystery Pride
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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Master Myself Politics Servant
Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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Agreement Girl Last Rose Young
He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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Dumb Himself Joke Laughter
The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.
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Build Ego Hard Perfection Pride

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