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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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I am not bad, thank you. But don’t worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.
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Death Myself Thankful
In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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Paid Policy Risk War
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
It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
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Bad Better
No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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Feeling Policy Reality Side Worth
France cannot be France without greatness.
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France Greatness One Liner
There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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Breed Familiar Mystery Pride
How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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Country Food Funny Government Yourself
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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Conclusion Important Myself Politics Serious
Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
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Believe Himself Politics Quite Word
I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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Destiny Feeing Instrument Myself
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
Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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Attraction Difficult Embrace Himself Realization
I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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Belong Deep Man Myself
These people really aim very badly.
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Bad Goal People
Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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Power Silence Ultimate Weapon Wisdom
Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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Annoy Country Creation Invention
Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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Force Leadership Love Process Strong
The leader is always alone before bad fates.
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Alone Bad Fate Hard Time Leadership
Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
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Art Ideal Politics Reality Service
Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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Greatness Leadership Unknown
When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
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Myself Thinking
Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
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Adversity Bitter Himself Joy Responsibility Seek
You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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Adapt Fast Strategy Yourself
France has no friends, only interests.
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Friendship Interest Selfish
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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Generosity Skin Soul Start Yourself
At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
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Civilization Freedom Leisure Root Work

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