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.
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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These people really aim very badly.
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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 may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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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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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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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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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
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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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I am not bad, thank you. But don’t worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.
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Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that’s the way he shows his passion for equality.
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