Quote #13
How can you govern a country which has two hundred and forty-six varieties of cheese?
More from Charles de Gaulle
- No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
- I am not ill. But do not worry, one day, I will certainly die.
- Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
- Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
- I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
- The future does not belong to men...
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- Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.