Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
CHARLES DE GAULLEMy dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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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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In politics it is necessary either to betray one’s country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
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There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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I’m not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
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The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents.
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Betting against gold is the same as betting on governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.
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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.
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Don’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.
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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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Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
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To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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It’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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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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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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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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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.
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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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Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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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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