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When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.

Charles de Gaulle

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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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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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Achievement Determination Greatness Myself
No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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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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Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
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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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Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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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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How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.
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One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.
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The leader is always alone before bad fates.
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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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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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Character is the virtue of hard times.
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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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