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.
CHARLES DE GAULLENo policy is worth anything outside of reality.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented with anything else when one has come face to face with history?
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The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.
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How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
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Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
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Character is the virtue of hard times.
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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
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To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
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One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.
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France has no friends, only interests.
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When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.
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How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
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