It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
CHARLES DE GAULLEOne can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.
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I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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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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The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.
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How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared, either in scope or in rapidity.
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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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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
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Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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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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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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Old age is a shipwreck.
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Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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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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The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.
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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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There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented with anything else when one has come face to face with history?
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I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.
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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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