How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
CHARLES DE GAULLEBetting 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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I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.
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I am not bad, thank you. But don’t worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.
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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
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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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You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
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We may go to the moon, but that’ s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.
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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.
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Character is the virtue of hard times.
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How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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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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