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 GAULLEThe graveyards are full of indispensable men.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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France has no friends, only interests.
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No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents.
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In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.
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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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Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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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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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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