Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
CHARLES DE GAULLEI have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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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 have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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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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A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
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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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It’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
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No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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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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France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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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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Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
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How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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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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