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The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.

Charles de Gaulle

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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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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents.
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You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
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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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Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
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A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
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France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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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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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
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History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.
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For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.
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Betting against gold is the same as betting on governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.
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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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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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To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.
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The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.
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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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The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
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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.
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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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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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