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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. "
Charles de Gaulle
Against
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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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" I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. "
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" You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination. "
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" Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone. "
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" One cannot govern with 'buts'. "
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" No nation has friends only interests. "
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" When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself. "
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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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" 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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" In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant. "
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" Silence is the ultimate weapon of power. "
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" The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute. "
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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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" The graveyards are full of indispensable men. "
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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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" There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt. "
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" France cannot be France without greatness. "
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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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" You'll live. Only the best get killed. "
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" The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs. "
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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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" 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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" Old age is a shipwreck. "
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" Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown. "
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" Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last. "
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" To govern is always to choose among disadvantages. "
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