Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
CHARLES DE GAULLETo govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
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I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented with anything else when one has come face to face with history?
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France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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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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Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
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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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He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
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No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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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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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
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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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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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Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
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It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared, either in scope or in rapidity.
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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
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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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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
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