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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!

Charles de Gaulle

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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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Friendship Man State
These people really aim very badly.
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Bad Goal People
Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
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Action Function Oneself
France cannot be France without greatness.
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France Greatness One Liner
How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
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Different Food Government Kind Nation Rule
One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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Governement Oneself
Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
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Art Ideal Politics Reality Service
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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Master Myself Politics Servant
Old age is a shipwreck.
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Age Myself Old Perspective
Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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Authority Build Shelter Silence Strong Weakness
Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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Attraction Difficult Embrace Himself Realization
To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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Advantage Choice Government
We may go to the moon, but that’ s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.
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Discover Distance Far Greatness Lying Moon
Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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Character Face Fall Himself Man
The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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Better Love Man Myself
It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared, either in scope or in rapidity.
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Compare Rapid Scope Transformation World
There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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Breed Familiar Mystery Pride
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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Digestion Influence Life Myself Reading
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
One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.
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Day Death Evening Judgement Life Oneself Wait
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
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Love Nation Patriot People Yourself
He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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Dumb Himself Joke Laughter
In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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Paid Policy Risk War
I am not bad, thank you. But don’t worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.
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Death Myself Thankful
Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
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Climate Diplomat Rain
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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Death Grave Man
It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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Food Impossible Kind Nation

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