It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
CHARLES DE GAULLEGenius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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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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Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
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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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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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It’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
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Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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Don’t ask me who’s influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he’s digested, and I’ve been reading all my life.
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How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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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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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
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Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
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Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that’s the way he shows his passion for equality.
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Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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