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One cannot govern with ‘buts’.

Charles de Gaulle

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When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
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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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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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France has no friends, only interests.
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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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Never relinquish the initiative.
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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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Don’t ask me who’s influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he’s digested, and I’ve been reading all my life.
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The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.
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Character is the virtue of hard times.
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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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A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
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How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
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You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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Best Kill Live Yourself

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