How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
CHARLES DE GAULLEDeliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
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All my life I have had a certain idea of 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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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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It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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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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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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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
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Whereas ordinary officers must be content with behaving correctly in front of their men, the great leaders have always carefully stage-managed their effects.
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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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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 peril can bring the French together. One can’t impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.
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Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
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France has no friends, only interests.
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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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I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
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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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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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The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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France cannot be France without greatness.
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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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