France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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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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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The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.
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It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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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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Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
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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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Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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Betting against gold is the same as betting on governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.
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How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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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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How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
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How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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