How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
CHARLES DE GAULLEThe evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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The leader is always alone before bad fates.
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There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
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No, I’m not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!
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Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
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In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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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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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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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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France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.
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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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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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No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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