Quote by Charles de Gaulle

How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?

How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and fort

Summary

This quote, often attributed to Charles de Gaulle, highlights the challenges of governing a diverse nation. It humorously suggests that the presence of numerous regional variations or preferences for cheese symbolizes the wide-ranging differences within a country. Managing a nation with such a variety requires understanding and accommodating various cultural, social, and regional peculiarities, making governance a complex task. The quote serves to recognize the diversity inherent in governing a diverse nation and implies that effective leadership requires recognizing and navigating these differences.

By Charles de Gaulle

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

Provincial governments in Canada have terminated the positio

Provincial governments in Canada have terminated the positions of marriage commissioners who have, for personal religious convictions, not performed same sex marriages. It has happened in Saskatchewan.

Marriage

Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself

Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.

Madeleine L'Engle

Truth

A ship in port is safe, but that is not what ships are built

A ship in port is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

Grace Murray Hopper

Sailing

If we keep on ignoring and leaving children to their own dev

If we keep on ignoring and leaving children to their own devices at home, they become latchkey kids, and trust me, the consequences of that are not good.

Trust

I am not a morose person, but I would rather not be here. I

I am not a morose person, but I would rather not be here. I don't have any reverence for life, only for the entities themselves. I would rather see a blank space where I am. This will sound like fruitcake stuff again but at least I wouldn't be harming anything

Life Sound

Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence - those

Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you'd collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.

Consumerism

I would never do a commercial for something that is embarras

I would never do a commercial for something that is embarrassing, and I think that people maybe have a different perspective on what is embarrassing or not. Some people think doing a Revlon hair commercial is really cool. To me, that's embarrassing, but World of Warcraft - not embarrassing, very cool.

Cool

Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.

Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.

Strength

You must sacrifice, train, do everything possible to put you

You must sacrifice, train, do everything possible to put yourself in a position to win. But if you consider second or third a failure, I feel sorry for you.

Competition

Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supre

Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.

God

I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, a

I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.

Mikhail Bakunin

Freedom

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

Education