General Charles De Gaulle

(9 votes)   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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(272 votes)   Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

Charles De Gaulle
1890-1970, French President during World War II

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(212 votes)   The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

Charles De Gaulle
1890-1970, French President during World War II

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(160 votes)   Treaties are like roses and young girls -- they last while they last

Charles De Gaulle
1890-1970, French President during World War II

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(143 votes)   China is a big country with a lot of chinese people living there Former French President Charles De Gaulle

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(126 votes)   Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

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(123 votes)   In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.

Charles De Gaulle
1890-1970, French President during World War II

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(119 votes)   I respect only those who resist me; but I cannot tolerate them.

Charles De Gaulle
1890-1970, French President during World War II

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(115 votes)   Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Charles De Gaulle
1890-1970, French President during World War II

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(111 votes)   Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains, they drown in every drop.

Charles De Gaulle
1890-1970, French President during World War II

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(111 votes)   France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war.

Charles De Gaulle
1890-1970, French President during World War II

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(107 votes)   No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.

Charles De Gaulle
1890-1970, French President during World War II

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(106 votes)   Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.

Charles De Gaulle
1890-1970, French President during World War II

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(103 votes)   For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.

Charles De Gaulle
1890-1970, French President during World War II

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(93 votes)   I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Charles De Gaulle
1890-1970, French President during World War II

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