Charles de Gaulle

How can you expect to govern a country that has two hundred and forty-six kinds of cheese?

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.

How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over varieties of cheeses? ()

For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.

A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.

To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.

When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.

You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.

I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.

I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Metro.

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country of the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.

It will not be any European statesman who will unite Europe: Europe will be united by the Chinese.

In order to become the master the politician poses as the servant.

Minister nie powinien żalić się na gazety. Nie powinien ich nawet czytać. Powinien je pisać.

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