He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
CHARLES DE GAULLEFrance has no friends, only interests.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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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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The leader is always alone before bad fates.
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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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Don’t think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
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Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
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Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
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In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented with anything else when one has come face to face with history?
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The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
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Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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Character is the virtue of hard times.
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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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