The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
CHARLES DE GAULLEHow can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
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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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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents.
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You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
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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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When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.
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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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It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.
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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 am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.
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Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.
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