Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
CHARLES DE GAULLELove is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.
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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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It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
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France cannot be France without greatness.
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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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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.
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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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Old age is a shipwreck.
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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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How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
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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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Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.
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To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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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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