Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that’s the way he shows his passion for equality.
CHARLES DE GAULLEHow can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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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To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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Old age is a shipwreck.
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The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
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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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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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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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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
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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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At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
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