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" No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent. "
Charles de Gaulle
Independent
Atom
Country
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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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" How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese? "
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" To govern is always to choose among disadvantages. "
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Always
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" Never relinquish the initiative. "
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" There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt. "
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Contempt
Without
" Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word. "
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" The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects. "
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Always
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" France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war. "
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She
Battle
France
" Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance. "
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Without
" You'll live. Only the best get killed. "
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You
Live
" I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously. "
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Views
" When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time. "
Charles de Gaulle
Wrong
Right
Much
" Old age is a shipwreck. "
Charles de Gaulle
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
" I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge. "
Charles de Gaulle
Always
Charge
Authority
" The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute. "
Charles de Gaulle
World
Absolute
Axis
" You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul. "
Charles de Gaulle
Soul
Giving
Skin
" A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends. "
Charles de Gaulle
Country
Name
Worthy
" Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last. "
Charles de Gaulle
Young
Young Girls
Roses
" I might have had trouble saving France in 1946 - I didn't have television then. "
Charles de Gaulle
Had
France
Television
" Silence is the ultimate weapon of power. "
Charles de Gaulle
Ultimate
Silence
Weapon
" One does not arrest Voltaire. "
Charles de Gaulle
Does
Arrest
Voltaire
" Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown. "
Charles de Gaulle
Greatness
Leading
Road
" I was France. "
Charles de Gaulle
France
History
" I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them. "
Charles de Gaulle
Cannot
Resist
Only
" 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. "
Charles de Gaulle
New
Habit
Country
" You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination. "
Charles de Gaulle
Think
You
Will
" Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first. "
Charles de Gaulle
Hate
Patriotism
People
" When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself. "
Charles de Gaulle
Want
Ask
France