How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
CHARLES DE GAULLEI am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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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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How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
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France has no friends, only interests.
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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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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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Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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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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Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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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 feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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France cannot be France without greatness.
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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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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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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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