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"Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon."

"Men and women that don't respond with solution to the challenges of the era are human biomasses."

"What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do."

"The action we take and the decisions we make in this decade will have consequences far into this century. If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch."
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"I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians."

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

"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?"

"As an adolescent I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so."

"When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time."

"I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French."

"You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination."
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