Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
CHARLES DE GAULLEA true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
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Never relinquish the initiative.
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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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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.
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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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France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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France cannot be France without greatness.
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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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These people really aim very badly.
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Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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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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It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.
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