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One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.

Charles de Gaulle

Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Attraction Difficult Embrace Himself Realization
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.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Action Character Crisis Face Himself Responsibility
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.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Build Ego Hard Perfection Pride
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Master Myself Politics Servant
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Death Grave Man
No, I’m not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Business Myself Talk
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.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Country Habit Marriage Old Time
The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Judgement Leadership Narrow Ordinary People
In politics it is necessary either to betray one’s country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Betrayal Country Election Necessary Politics
All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Ideas Life Myself
The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Confidence Domination Elite People Time
It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared, either in scope or in rapidity.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Compare Rapid Scope Transformation World
Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Friendship Man State
Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Achievement Endeavour Leadership Remember
We may go to the moon, but that’ s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Discover Distance Far Greatness Lying Moon
I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Decision Harmony Myself View

One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.

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