Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
CHARLES DE GAULLEFrance cannot be France without greatness.
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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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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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The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.
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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.
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When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
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My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
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Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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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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How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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France cannot be France without greatness.
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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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