When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.
CHARLES DE GAULLEIn order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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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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Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
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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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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 one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
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Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.
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The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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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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Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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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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He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
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Old age is a shipwreck.
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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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