How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
CHARLES DE GAULLEDon’t think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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The leader is always alone before bad fates.
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There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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No, I’m not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!
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At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
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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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When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
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Old age is a shipwreck.
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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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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 characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.
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I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
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How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
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France cannot be France without greatness.
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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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