When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.
CHARLES DE GAULLEHow can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
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It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.
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To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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Whatever happens, the flame of the French resistance must not be extinguished and will not be extinguished. Tomorrow, as today, I will speak on Radio London.
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In politics it is necessary either to betray one’s country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
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You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
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A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
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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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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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