Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
CHARLES DE GAULLEHow can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
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Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents.
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To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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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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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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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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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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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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In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented with anything else when one has come face to face with history?
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Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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Only peril can bring the French together. One can’t impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.
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