Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
CHARLES DE GAULLEHow can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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Betting against gold is the same as betting on governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.
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It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
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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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Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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The leader is always alone before bad fates.
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We may go to the moon, but that’ s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.
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I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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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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Only 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.
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I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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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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I am not bad, thank you. But don’t worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.
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Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
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