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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
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The sword is the axis of the world, and grandeur is indivisible.
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A man of Character finds an attractiveness in difficult, since it is through coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potenialities.
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Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
By Charles De Gaulle
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When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.
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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.
By Charles De Gaulle
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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
By Charles De Gaulle
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You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.
By Charles De Gaulle
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You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
By Charles De Gaulle
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When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
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What do you take me for, an idiot
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Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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The perfection preached in the Gospels never yet built up an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be forgiven him, indeed, they will be regarded as high qualities, if he can make of them the means to achieve great ends.
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The national task that had been incumbent upon me for 18 years is hereby confirmed.
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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
By Charles De Gaulle
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The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.
By Charles De Gaulle
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The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
By Charles De Gaulle
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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
By Charles de Gaulle
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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.
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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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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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Now I shall return to my village and there will remain at the disposition of the nation.
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My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
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Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness of a road leading towards the unknown.
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It will not be any European statesman who will unite Europe Europe will be united by the Chinese.
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In order to become the master the politician poses as the servant.
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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country of the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
By Charles De Gaulle
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I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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