How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
CHARLES DE GAULLEI am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.
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In politics it is necessary either to betray one’s country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
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Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
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It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
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Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
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Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.
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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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One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.
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It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.
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Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
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Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
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Character is the virtue of hard times.
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