French - Leader | November 22, 1890 - November 9, 1970
A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
Charles de Gaulle
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Old age is a shipwreck.
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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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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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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?
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I was France.
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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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Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
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We are not here to laugh.
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One does not arrest Voltaire.
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The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute.
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