Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
CHARLES DE GAULLEDeliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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Never relinquish the initiative.
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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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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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Don’t think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
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France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.
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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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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
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Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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