One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.
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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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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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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I am not bad, thank you. But don’t worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.
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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that’s the way he shows his passion for equality.
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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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France has no friends, only interests.
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The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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It’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
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Whatever happens, the flame of the French resistance must not be extinguished and will not be extinguished. Tomorrow, as today, I will speak on Radio London.
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I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
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