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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. "
Charles de Gaulle
Action
Character
Man
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" I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge. "
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" One cannot govern with 'buts'. "
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" I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Metro. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. "
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" In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant. "
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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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" 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
History
" France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war. "
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She
Battle
France
" 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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Answer
Me
Place
" Old age is a shipwreck. "
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Old Age
Age
Shipwreck
" 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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Lion
Me
" Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses; they last while they last. "
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" The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks. "
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" One does not arrest Voltaire. "
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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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History
Will
" 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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Humanity
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" Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance. "
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" For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her. "
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Her
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