Poems List

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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Vive Le Québec Libre.

Long Live Free Quebec.

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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.

Ernest Mignon Les Mots du Général (1962)

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Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses: they last while they last.

speech at Elysée Palace, 2 July 1963, in André Passeron De Gaulle parle 1962–6 (1966)

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Europe des patries.

A Europe of nations.

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How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?

Ernest Mignon Les Mots du Général (1962)

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Je vows ai compns.

I have understood you.

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Politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

replying to Attlee ’s remark that ‘De Gaulle is a very good soldier and a very bad politician’

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France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war!

proclamation, 18 June 1940

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