France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.
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The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.
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All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
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I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone.
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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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When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
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Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
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No, I’m not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!
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France cannot be France without greatness.
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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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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These people really aim very badly.
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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.
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