How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
CHARLES DE GAULLEHow can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
CHARLES DE GAULLEAdversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
CHARLES DE GAULLESilence is the ultimate weapon of power.
CHARLES DE GAULLEGentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
CHARLES DE GAULLEHow can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
CHARLES DE GAULLENothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
CHARLES DE GAULLEThese people really aim very badly.
CHARLES DE GAULLENo policy is worth anything outside of reality.
CHARLES DE GAULLEOne cannot govern with ‘buts’.
CHARLES DE GAULLEIt is better to have a bad method than to have none.
CHARLES DE GAULLEYou have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
CHARLES DE GAULLENo, I’m not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!
CHARLES DE GAULLEWhen I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
CHARLES DE GAULLEDon’t ask me who’s influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he’s digested, and I’ve been reading all my life.
CHARLES DE GAULLEPatriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
CHARLES DE GAULLEIt’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
CHARLES DE GAULLE