All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
CHARLES DE GAULLEThere can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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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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In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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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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For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.
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Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.
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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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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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How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
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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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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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