How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
CHARLES DE GAULLEI have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
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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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France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.
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He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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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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History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.
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You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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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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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.
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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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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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Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
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Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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