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“How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?”
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“The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.”
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“Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.”
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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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“Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.”
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“I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.”
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“China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese. ”
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“Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.”
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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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“The cemeteries are full of indispensable men.”
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“France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war”
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“You'll live. Only the best get killed.”
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“Treaties you see are like girls and roses; they last while they last.”
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“Always choose the most difficult way, there you will not meet competitors.”
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“Soyons fermes, purs et fidèles ; au bout de nos peines, il y a la plus grande gloire du monde, celle des hommes qui n'ont pas cédé. [Let us be firm, pure and faithful; at the end of our sorrow, there is the greatest glory of the world, that of the men who did not give in.]”
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“Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.”
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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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“I am a man who belongs to nobody and who belongs to everybody.”
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“In order to be the master, the politician poses as the servant.”
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“One must speak little. In action one must say nothing. The chief is the one who does not speak.”
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“Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.”
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“It is better to have a bad method than to have none.”
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“Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.”
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“Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.”
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“The more I get to know men, the more I love dogs.”
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“Vive Le Québec Libre.”
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“I am too poor to bow.”
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“There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.”
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“Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.”
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“Diplomats are useful
only in fair weather.
As soon as it rains
they drown in every drop.”
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only in fair weather.
As soon as it rains
they drown in every drop.”
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