Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
CHARLES DE GAULLEThe leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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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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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
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Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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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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One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared, either in scope or in rapidity.
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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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The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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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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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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It’s better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
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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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