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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. "
Charles de Gaulle
Surprise
True
Always
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" Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. "
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" I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously. "
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" We are not here to laugh. "
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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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" Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word. "
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" No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent. "
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" China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese. "
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Big
Chinese
" 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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People
" The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs. "
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Loving
" 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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Habit
Country
" In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant. "
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" 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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Friend
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" France cannot be France without greatness. "
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" Old age is a shipwreck. "
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" Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own. "
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" 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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Much
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