In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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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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How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.
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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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France has no friends, only interests.
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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
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I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
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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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Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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