He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
CHARLES DE GAULLEIt’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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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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Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
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In politics it is necessary either to betray one’s country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
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How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
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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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Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
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History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.
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The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
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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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You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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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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