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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. "
Charles de Gaulle
Soul
Giving
Skin
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" I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously. "
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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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" 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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" I was France. "
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" When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself. "
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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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" The graveyards are full of indispensable men. "
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" You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless. "
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" For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her. "
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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. "
Charles de Gaulle
Cheese
Country
Together
" How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese? "
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" The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects. "
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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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History
Will
" We are not here to laugh. "
Charles de Gaulle
Here
Laugh
" Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. "
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Politics
Serious
" The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs. "
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Pet
Better
Loving
" Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone. "
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Men
Action
" You'll live. Only the best get killed. "
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You
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" One does not arrest Voltaire. "
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Arrest
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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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" To govern is always to choose among disadvantages. "
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Govern
Choose
" The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute. "
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Absolute
Axis
" Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back. "
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Back
Answer
Someone
" I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. "
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Serious
Politicians
Politics
" There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt. "
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Mystery
Contempt
Without
" The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks. "
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True
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