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How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?

Charles de Gaulle

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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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Death Hero Humanity Possible Sacrifice Tolerance
You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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Best Kill Live Yourself
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.
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Day Flame Myself Resistance Talk
I am not bad, thank you. But don’t worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.
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Death Myself Thankful
In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?
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History Man Myself Satisfaction Solitude Temptation Yourself
It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
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Bad Better
Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
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Army Brilliant Mistake Planning Victory
Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.
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Country Habit Marriage Old Time
Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
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Action Function Oneself
One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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Governement Oneself
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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Country Different Funny Oneself Togetherness Unity
I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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Myself Resistance Respect Tolerance
You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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Adapt Fast Strategy Yourself
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
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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I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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Embarrassment Myself Revolution

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