The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
CHARLES DE GAULLEHearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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We may go to the moon, but that’ s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.
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I am not bad, thank you. But don’t worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.
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Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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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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To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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No, I’m not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!
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He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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Betting against gold is the same as betting on governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.
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The leader is always alone before bad fates.
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The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
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Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.
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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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