One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
CHARLES DE GAULLEAlways choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
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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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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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My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
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How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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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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Don’t think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
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It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
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I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.
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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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France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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France cannot be France without greatness.
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