How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
CHARLES DE GAULLEWhen I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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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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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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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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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
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Betting against gold is the same as betting on governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.
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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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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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France has no friends, only interests.
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It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.
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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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Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents.
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These people really aim very badly.
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The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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