- Bomb
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- Graveyards
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- Nov 07, 2020
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Politicians
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was France.
- France
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- Nov 07, 2020
France cannot be France without greatness.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.
- Nov 07, 2020
You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.
- Choose
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- Nov 07, 2020
To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
- Harmonize
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Metro.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
Old age is a shipwreck.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
You'll live. Only the best get killed.
- Habit
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Ceremony
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Lion
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
- China
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- Nov 07, 2020
China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.
- Either
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- Nov 07, 2020
In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
- Familiarity
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- Nov 07, 2020
There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.
- Alone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
- Church
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- Nov 07, 2020
Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
- Cannot
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- Nov 07, 2020
One cannot govern with 'buts'.
- Leading
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- Nov 07, 2020
Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
- Interests
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- Nov 07, 2020
No nation has friends only interests.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never relinquish the initiative.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are not here to laugh.
- Different Kinds
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- Nov 07, 2020
How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
- Does
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- Nov 07, 2020