Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
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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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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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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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 better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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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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Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
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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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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
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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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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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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
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