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" Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last. "
Charles de Gaulle
Young
Young Girls
Roses
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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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" In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. "
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" One does not arrest Voltaire. "
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" The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects. "
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" To govern is always to choose among disadvantages. "
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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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" I was France. "
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" You'll live. Only the best get killed. "
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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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" I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. "
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" No nation has friends only interests. "
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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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Who
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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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" The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs. "
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Pet
Better
Loving
" 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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Answer
Me
Place
" The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute. "
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World
Absolute
Axis
" Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown. "
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Leading
Road
" No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent. "
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Independent
Atom
Country
" 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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Aim
Leader
People
" 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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New
Habit
Country
" Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word. "
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" I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously. "
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Heard
Mine
Views
" The graveyards are full of indispensable men. "
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Graveyards
Indispensable
Men
" I might have had trouble saving France in 1946 - I didn't have television then. "
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Had
France
Television
" The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks. "
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Willing
True
Who
" One cannot govern with 'buts'. "
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Cannot
Govern
Buts
" 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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" 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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