I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
CHARLES DE GAULLEHow can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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The leader is always alone before bad fates.
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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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These people really aim very badly.
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One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.
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It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared, either in scope or in rapidity.
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Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
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There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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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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My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
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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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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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For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.
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It’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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