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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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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
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Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.
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Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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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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My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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Betting against gold is the same as betting on governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.
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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.
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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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