How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
CHARLES DE GAULLELove is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
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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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It’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
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I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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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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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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France has no friends, only interests.
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I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
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History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.
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Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.
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Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
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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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A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
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