More from Charles de Gaulle

  1. There are three roads to ruin: by gambling, which is the quickest; through women, which is the most pleasurable; and through taking the adv…
  2. Within ten years we shall have whatever is necessary to kill 80 million Russians. Well I reckon one does not light-heartly attack people wh…
  3. I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
  4. Brazil is not a serious country.
  5. To General Jacques Massu : Alors Massu, toujours aussi con ? (So, Massu, still that stupid?)
  6. Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
  7. That's a tall order, indeed.
  8. Why do you think that at 67 I would start a career as a dictator ?

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