It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
CHARLES DE GAULLEWe may go to the moon, but that’ s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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France cannot be France without greatness.
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There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.
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You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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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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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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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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For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.
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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.
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How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
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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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Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
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