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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
I was France.
Long live free Quebec!
Old age is a shipwreck.
We are not here to laugh.
They really are bad shots.
One does not arrest Voltaire.
One cannot govern with 'buts'.
Never relinquish the initiative.
The future does not belong to men.
What do you take me for, an idiot?
These people really aim very badly.
No nation has friends only interests.
France has no friends, only interests.
You'll live. Only the best get killed.
Character is the virtue of hard times.
He who laughs last didn't get the joke.
Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
France cannot be France without greatness.
The leader is always alone before bad fates.
I cannot prevent the French from being French
The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
The cemetery is filled with indispensable men.
No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
I'm not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese.
It's better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
I wouldn't mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.
Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
Long live Montreal, Long live Quebec! Long live Free Quebec!
The cabinet has no propositions to make, but orders to give.
A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute.
I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents
Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
