The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.
CHARLES DE GAULLEHow can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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France cannot be France without greatness.
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It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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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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Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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Old age is a shipwreck.
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Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
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One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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