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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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A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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Death Grave Man
Never relinquish the initiative.
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How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
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France has no friends, only interests.
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In politics it is necessary either to betray one’s country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
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One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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Governement Oneself
Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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Attraction Difficult Embrace Himself Realization
How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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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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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
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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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Death Myself Thankful
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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Angry Myself Right Time Wrong

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