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How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?

Charles de Gaulle

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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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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.
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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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One 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 respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
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Character is the virtue of hard times.
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Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
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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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Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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France has no friends, only interests.
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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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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You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.
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