No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
CHARLES DE GAULLEI am not bad, thank you. But don’t worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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These people really aim very badly.
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Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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Only peril can bring the French together. One can’t impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.
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The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.
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You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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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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It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.
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How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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Old age is a shipwreck.
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