It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
CHARLES DE GAULLEFor all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.
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Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
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How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties 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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It’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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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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The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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France cannot be France without greatness.
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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
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Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
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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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