Quote #41

Within ten years we shall have whatever is necessary to kill 80 million Russians. Well I reckon one does not light-heartly attack people who are able to kill 80 million Russians, even if one can kill 800 million French, that is if there were 800 million French.

More from Charles de Gaulle

  1. In the name of policy, change your friends.
  2. Brazil is not a serious country.
  3. There are three roads to ruin: by gambling, which is the quickest; through women, which is the most pleasurable; and through taking the adv…
  4. Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
  5. I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
  6. Why do you think that at 67 I would start a career as a dictator ?
  7. To General Jacques Massu : Alors Massu, toujours aussi con ? (So, Massu, still that stupid?)
  8. Of course one can jump up and down yelling Europe ! Europe ! Europe ! But it amounts to nothing and it means nothing.

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