Politics quotes by Charles De Gaulle

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"A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends."
"France cannot be France without greatness."
"I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Métro."
"I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously."
"I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French."
"I was France."
"My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial."
"Now I shall return to my village and there will remain at the disposition of the nation."
"Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first."
"Roosevelt, a false witness; Truman, a merchant; Eisenhower, I am told that on the golf links he is better [with a putter] than he is with the long shots and that doesn't surprise me; Kennedy, the style of a hairdresser's assistant-he combed his way through problems; Johnson, a truck driver or a stevedore-or a legionnaire."
"The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs."
"The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects."
"The national task that had been incumbent upon me for 18 years is hereby confirmed."
"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."
"You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul."
"[He is] a lion with a lion's countenance."