More from Charles de Gaulle

  1. The government has no propositions to make, but orders to give.
  2. The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
  3. Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
  4. How do they expect a one-party system to work in a country which has over 246 different kinds of cheese?
  5. The leader is always alone before bad fates.
  6. Always go for the highest position, it is generally the least crowded.
  7. Anything can happen someday, even that an act conforming to honour and honesty can end up, at the end of the line, as a good political deci…
  8. The important things which were said to humanity were always simple things.

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