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" I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously. "
Charles de Gaulle
Heard
Mine
Views
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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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" One does not arrest Voltaire. "
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" Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back. "
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" We are not here to laugh. "
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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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" Old age is a shipwreck. "
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" You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless. "
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" There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt. "
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" One cannot govern with 'buts'. "
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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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" 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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" You'll live. Only the best get killed. "
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You
Live
" 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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" The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs. "
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" When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself. "
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Ask
France
" France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war. "
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Battle
France
" The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute. "
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World
Absolute
Axis
" I might have had trouble saving France in 1946 - I didn't have television then. "
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France
Television
" Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance. "
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Without
" 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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Who
People
" 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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Day
Trials
" 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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Death
Better
" I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them. "
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Resist
Only
" No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent. "
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Atom
Country
" For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her. "
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Glory
Her
Herself
" 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
" 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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