Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
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I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money.
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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
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
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
Charles de Gaulle
The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute.
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