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Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.

Charles de Gaulle

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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.
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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.
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Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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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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Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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The future does not belong to men.
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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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There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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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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