The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
CHARLES DE GAULLEAuthority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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The future does not belong to men.
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I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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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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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.
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One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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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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I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
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Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
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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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The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.
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