France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
CHARLES DE GAULLEHe who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
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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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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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Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that’s the way he shows his passion for equality.
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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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Don’t ask me who’s influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he’s digested, and I’ve been reading all my life.
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There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
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These people really aim very badly.
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Whereas ordinary officers must be content with behaving correctly in front of their men, the great leaders have always carefully stage-managed their effects.
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A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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Whatever happens, the flame of the French resistance must not be extinguished and will not be extinguished. Tomorrow, as today, I will speak on Radio London.
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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.
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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents.
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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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Old age is a shipwreck.
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The future does not belong to men.
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In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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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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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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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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