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" The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute. "
Charles de Gaulle
World
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" A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends. "
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" Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last. "
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" Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone. "
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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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" The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects. "
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" One does not arrest Voltaire. "
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" No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent. "
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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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" You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless. "
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" A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless. "
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" France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war. "
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" The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs. "
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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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" 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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" To govern is always to choose among disadvantages. "
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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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" I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge. "
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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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" 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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" We are not here to laugh. "
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" I might have had trouble saving France in 1946 - I didn't have television then. "
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France
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" In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant. "
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" Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word. "
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" Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance. "
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" You'll live. Only the best get killed. "
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" For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her. "
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