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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.

Charles de Gaulle

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When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
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Myself Thinking
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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Angry Myself Right Time Wrong
The future does not belong to men.
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It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.
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Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
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Art Ideal Politics Reality Service
France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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Battle France Herself Lost War
One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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Governement Oneself
He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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Dumb Himself Joke Laughter
It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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Food Impossible Kind Nation
In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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Paid Policy Risk War
Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that’s the way he shows his passion for equality.
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Enjoyment Equality Himself Passion Privilege
There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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Adapt Fast Strategy Yourself
You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
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Beyond Commitment Imagination Stupidity Yourself
All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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Ideas Life Myself
Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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