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Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.

Charles de Gaulle

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I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Decision Harmony Myself View
You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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Best Kill Live Yourself
Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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Attraction Difficult Embrace Himself Realization
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
Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
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Believe Himself Politics Quite Word
Whereas ordinary officers must be content with behaving correctly in front of their men, the great leaders have always carefully stage-managed their effects.
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Content Effect Leadership Man Management Ordinary
France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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Battle France Herself Lost War
One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.
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Day Death Evening Judgement Life Oneself Wait
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Achievement Determination Greatness Myself
He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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Dumb Himself Joke Laughter
For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.
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Faith France Guide Rule
To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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Advantage Choice Government
The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.
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Confidence Domination Elite People Time
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
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Love Nation Patriot People Yourself
Character is the virtue of hard times.
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Character Hard Time Virtue
These people really aim very badly.
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Bad Goal People
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
Never relinquish the initiative.
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Dim Initiative
The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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Communism Evolution Inevitable
At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Civilization Freedom Leisure Root Work
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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Business Myself Talk
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
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.
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Digestion Influence Life Myself Reading
One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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Governement Oneself
Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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Power Silence Ultimate Weapon Wisdom
In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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Paid Policy Risk War
How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
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Country Food Himself System Variety

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