Character is the virtue of hard times.
CHARLES DE GAULLEHe who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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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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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.
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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.
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I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.
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I am not bad, thank you. But don’t worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.
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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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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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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?
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How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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