Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
CHARLES DE GAULLEAlways choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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No, I’m not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!
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It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
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I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
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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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You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.
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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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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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Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
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Never relinquish the initiative.
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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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I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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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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