How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
CHARLES DE GAULLEHow can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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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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Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that’s the way he shows his passion for equality.
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How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.
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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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These people really aim very badly.
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Don’t think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
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The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
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You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
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The leader is always alone before bad fates.
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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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France cannot be France without greatness.
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Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
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Old age is a shipwreck.
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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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