How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
CHARLES DE GAULLEFrance has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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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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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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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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I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
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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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France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.
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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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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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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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Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
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