I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
CHARLES DE GAULLENo, I’m not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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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 anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
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I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
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In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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In politics it is necessary either to betray one’s country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
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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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Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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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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In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?
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