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" A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends. "
Charles de Gaulle
Country
Name
Worthy
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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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" A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless. "
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" I might have had trouble saving France in 1946 - I didn't have television then. "
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" When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself. "
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" I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge. "
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" The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute. "
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" Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown. "
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" France cannot be France without greatness. "
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" Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop. "
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Drop
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" One does not arrest Voltaire. "
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" No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent. "
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" For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her. "
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" The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects. "
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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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" 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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" How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese? "
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" Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone. "
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Men
Action
" Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance. "
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Authority
Work
Without
" One cannot govern with 'buts'. "
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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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