I am not bad, thank you. But don’t worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.
CHARLES DE GAULLENo policy is worth anything outside of reality.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
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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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Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
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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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It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
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Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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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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You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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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 the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?
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To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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France cannot be France without greatness.
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