The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.
From Charles de Gaulle
It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.
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.
You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.
How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Metro.
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?
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.
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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