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| A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends. |
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| A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities |
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| A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless. |
| Leadership |
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| All my life I have thought of France in a certain way. |
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| Art thou poor, yet hast thou golden slumbers? / O sweet content! / Art thou rich, yet is thy mind perplexed? / O punishment! |
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| 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. |
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| Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance. |
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| Brave shoemakers, all gentlemen of the gentle craft. |
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| Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone. |
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| Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop. |
| Diplomacy |
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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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| Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that's the way he shows his passion for equality |
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| Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends. |
| Action |
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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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| Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself. |
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| For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her. |
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| France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war! (Proclamation, 18 June 1940) |
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| France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war. |
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