Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
CHARLES DE GAULLEOnce 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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Whatever happens, the flame of the French resistance must not be extinguished and will not be extinguished. Tomorrow, as today, I will speak on Radio London.
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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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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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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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Old age is a shipwreck.
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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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Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
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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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The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
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Character is the virtue of hard times.
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It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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