It’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
CHARLES DE GAULLEI respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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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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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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How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
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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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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?
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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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Only peril can bring the French together. One can’t impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.
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The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.
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For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.
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France has no friends, only interests.
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The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.
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Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that’s the way he shows his passion for equality.
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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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