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" Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown. "
Charles de Gaulle
Greatness
Leading
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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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" 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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" I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge. "
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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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" The graveyards are full of indispensable men. "
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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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" In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant. "
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" No nation has friends only interests. "
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" Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese. "
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" Never relinquish the initiative. "
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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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" Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so. "
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" Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses; they last while they last. "
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" Silence is the ultimate weapon of power. "
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" One cannot govern with 'buts'. "
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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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" 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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" 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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