There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
CHARLES DE GAULLEFrance has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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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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Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
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I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air 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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I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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It’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
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Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
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The future does not belong to men.
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One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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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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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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To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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