Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
CHARLES DE GAULLEWhen I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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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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Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
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I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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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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When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
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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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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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Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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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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