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How can you govern a country that has two hundred and forty-six varieties of cheese?

— Charles de Gaulle

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Les Mots du Général, Ernest Mignon, 1962

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France has lost a battle, but France has not lost the war.

France cannot be France without greatness.

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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.

Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.

Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.

Le Fil de l'épée (1932)

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