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In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented with anything else when one has come face to face with history?

Charles de Gaulle

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I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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Death Mindset Myself Patriot
These people really aim very badly.
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Bad Goal People
The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.
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Confidence Domination Elite People Time
Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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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
It’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
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Bad Better Choice Planning
Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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Character Difficult Fulfill Himself Man
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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Country Different Funny Oneself Togetherness Unity
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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Action Character Crisis Face Himself Responsibility
Whatever happens, the flame of the French resistance must not be extinguished and will not be extinguished. Tomorrow, as today, I will speak on Radio London.
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Day Flame Myself Resistance Talk
To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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Advantage Choice Government
Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that’s the way he shows his passion for equality.
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Enjoyment Equality Himself Passion Privilege
Old age is a shipwreck.
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Age Myself Old Perspective
The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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Communism Evolution Inevitable
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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