Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
CHARLES DE GAULLEAll my life I have had a certain idea of France.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
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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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I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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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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The leader is always alone before bad fates.
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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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All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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We may go to the moon, but that’ s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.
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It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
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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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The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.
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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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France has no friends, only interests.
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