All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
CHARLES DE GAULLEFrance has no friends, only interests.
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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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Old age is a shipwreck.
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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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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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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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France cannot be France without greatness.
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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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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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In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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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.
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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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How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
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