You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.
CHARLES DE GAULLEIn war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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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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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
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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?
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How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?
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We may go to the moon, but that’ s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.
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Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
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Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
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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.
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