Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
CHARLES DE GAULLEOne must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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These people really aim very badly.
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It’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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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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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared, either in scope or in rapidity.
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One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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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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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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For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.
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