Don’t ask me who’s influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he’s digested, and I’ve been reading all my life.
CHARLES DE GAULLEIt’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
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How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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Whereas ordinary officers must be content with behaving correctly in front of their men, the great leaders have always carefully stage-managed their effects.
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History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.
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I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
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The leader is always alone before bad fates.
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We may go to the moon, but that’ s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.
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Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
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You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
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One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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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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