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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.

Charles de Gaulle

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Action Alone Man Oneself Work
For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Faith France Guide Rule
One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Governement Oneself
I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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Embarrassment Myself Revolution
Character is the virtue of hard times.
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Character Hard Time Virtue
How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Different Food Government Kind Nation Rule
These people really aim very badly.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Bad Goal People
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.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Country Different Funny Oneself Togetherness Unity
You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Best Kill Live Yourself
The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Judgement Leadership Narrow Ordinary People
Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Art Ideal Politics Reality Service
A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Breathe Element Excitement Leadership Public Surprise True
I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Myself Past Prevent Return
You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Beyond Commitment Imagination Stupidity Yourself
Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Character Face Fall Himself Man
I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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Myself Resistance Respect Tolerance

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