More from Charles de Gaulle

  1. I am not ill. But do not worry, one day, I will certainly die.
  2. The future does not belong to men...
  3. How can you govern a country which has two hundred and forty-six varieties of cheese?
  4. Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
  5. No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
  6. The sword is the axis of the world and grandeur cannot be divided.
  7. Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
  8. Nothing great is done without great men, and they are great because they wanted it.

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