How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
CHARLES DE GAULLEThe leader is always alone before bad fates.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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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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I am not bad, thank you. But don’t worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.
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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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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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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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Betting against gold is the same as betting on governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.
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Whereas ordinary officers must be content with behaving correctly in front of their men, the great leaders have always carefully stage-managed their effects.
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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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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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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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