He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
CHARLES DE GAULLEHearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
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Betting against gold is the same as betting on governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.
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Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
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The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.
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At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
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Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
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France has no friends, only interests.
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
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Never relinquish the initiative.
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It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.
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Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
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Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.
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A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.
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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.
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Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.
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For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.
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