How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
CHARLES DE GAULLEWhereas 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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The future does not belong to men.
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Old age is a shipwreck.
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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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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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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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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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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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My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
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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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Whatever happens, the flame of the French resistance must not be extinguished and will not be extinguished. Tomorrow, as today, I will speak on Radio London.
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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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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.
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No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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