The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
CHARLES DE GAULLEOnly 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.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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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.
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To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
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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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One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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The leader is always alone before bad fates.
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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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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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Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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Whereas ordinary officers must be content with behaving correctly in front of their men, the great leaders have always carefully stage-managed their effects.
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How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
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