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

Charles de Gaulle

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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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Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
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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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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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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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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
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The leader is always alone before bad fates.
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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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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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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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Never relinquish the initiative.
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Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
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These people really aim very badly.
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France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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