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

Charles de Gaulle

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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Master Myself Politics Servant
France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Battle France Herself Lost War
Character is the virtue of hard times.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Character Hard Time Virtue
How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Country Food Himself System Variety
All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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Ideas Life Myself
France cannot be France without greatness.
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France Greatness One Liner
One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Day Death Evening Judgement Life Oneself Wait
Old age is a shipwreck.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Age Myself Old Perspective
Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Character Face Fall Himself Man
In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Paid Policy Risk War
History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Determination Fatal Freedom History Man Moments
I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
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Myself Past Prevent Return
France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Build Image Nation Sword
You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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Adapt Fast Strategy Yourself
I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Destiny Feeing Instrument Myself
One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Dangerous Nation Oneself Production Simplicity Threat
My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Country Face heavy Myself Togetherness Trial
Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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Greatness Leadership Unknown
France has no friends, only interests.
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Friendship Interest Selfish
Whatever happens, the flame of the French resistance must not be extinguished and will not be extinguished. Tomorrow, as today, I will speak on Radio London.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Day Flame Myself Resistance Talk
Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Annoy Country Creation Invention
Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
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Action Function Oneself
You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Beyond Commitment Imagination Stupidity Yourself
Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Difficult Potential Realization
Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Climate Diplomat Rain
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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Desire Domination Passion Privilege Time
Don’t ask me who’s influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he’s digested, and I’ve been reading all my life.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Digestion Influence Life Myself Reading

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