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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. "

Charles de Gaulle

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" Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back. "

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" Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses; they last while they last. "

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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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" For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her. "

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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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" The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines. "

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" Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. "

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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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" 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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" France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war. "

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

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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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" There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt. "

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" Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance. "

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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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" You'll live. Only the best get killed. "

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" We are not here to laugh. "

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" As an adolescent I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so. "

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" Silence is the ultimate weapon of power. "

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" China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese. "

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" Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown. "

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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. "

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" One does not arrest Voltaire. "

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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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" To govern is always to choose among disadvantages. "

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" The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs. "

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" Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last. "

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