Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.

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Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses; they last while they last.

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There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.

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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.

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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

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I might have had trouble saving France in 1946 - I didn't have television then.

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

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

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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

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Now I shall return to my village and there will remain at the disposition of the nation.

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