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 GAULLEFrance has no friends, only interests.
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It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
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Character is the virtue of hard times.
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The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.
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He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
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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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No, I’m not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!
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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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France has no friends, only interests.
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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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The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
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Never relinquish the initiative.
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