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It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.

Charles de Gaulle

All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Ideas Life Myself
Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Adversity Bitter Himself Joy Responsibility Seek
I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Myself Past Prevent Return
A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Alone Country Friendship Greatness Name Worth
When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Angry Myself Right Time Wrong
The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Better Love Man Myself
You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Generosity Skin Soul Start Yourself
There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Breed Familiar Mystery Pride
I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Decision Harmony Myself View
No, I’m not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Business Myself Talk
I am not bad, thank you. But don’t worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Death Myself Thankful
Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Art Ideal Politics Reality Service
Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Country Habit Marriage Old Time
Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Character Difficult Fulfill Himself Man
Whereas ordinary officers must be content with behaving correctly in front of their men, the great leaders have always carefully stage-managed their effects.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Content Effect Leadership Man Management Ordinary
You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Beyond Commitment Imagination Stupidity Yourself

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