In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
CHARLES DE GAULLEPatriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
More Charles de Gaulle Quotes
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No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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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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One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.
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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 true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
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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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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
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Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.
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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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One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.
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When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
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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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France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
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Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.
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