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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other. -Charles De Gaulle.

For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.

Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.

My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.

How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?

Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be forgiven him, indeed, they will be regarded as high qualities, if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.

The church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.