Quote #44

Why do you think that at 67 I would start a career as a dictator ?

More from Charles de Gaulle

  1. Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
  2. Of course one can jump up and down yelling Europe ! Europe ! Europe ! But it amounts to nothing and it means nothing.
  3. Brazil is not a serious country.
  4. They make me laugh with their 'Rubicon': 'Rubicon', 'Rubicon', what does it mean ?
  5. 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…
  6. In the name of policy, change your friends.
  7. There are three roads to ruin: by gambling, which is the quickest; through women, which is the most pleasurable; and through taking the adv…
  8. I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

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