The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
CHARLES DE GAULLESince a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
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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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How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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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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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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Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
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One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
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I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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France cannot be France without greatness.
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Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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