More from Charles de Gaulle

  1. France cannot be France without greatness.
  2. How do they expect a one-party system to work in a country which has over 246 different kinds of cheese?
  3. The government has no propositions to make, but orders to give.
  4. Always go for the highest position, it is generally the least crowded.
  5. Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
  6. The important things which were said to humanity were always simple things.
  7. The leader is always alone before bad fates.
  8. Treaties are like roses and young girls; they last while they last.

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