Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents.
CHARLES DE GAULLEPolitics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
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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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How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
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Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
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There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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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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To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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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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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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Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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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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France cannot be France without greatness.
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It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared, either in scope or in rapidity.
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One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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