Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
CHARLES DE GAULLEVictory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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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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One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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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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I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.
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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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I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
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The future does not belong to men.
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