You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.
CHARLES DE GAULLEFaced 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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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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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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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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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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My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
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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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In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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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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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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The future does not belong to men.
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It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
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Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
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Old age is a shipwreck.
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The leader is always alone before bad fates.
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