Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
CHARLES DE GAULLEHow can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.
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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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Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
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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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Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.
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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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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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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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We may go to the moon, but that’ s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.
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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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I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
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In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?
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At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
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