No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
CHARLES DE GAULLEHow can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.
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I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
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He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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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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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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How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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It’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
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A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.
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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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The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
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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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Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that’s the way he shows his passion for equality.
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The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.
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