I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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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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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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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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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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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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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I am not bad, thank you. But don’t worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.
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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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No policy is worth anything outside of reality.
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Whatever happens, the flame of the French resistance must not be extinguished and will not be extinguished. Tomorrow, as today, I will speak on Radio London.
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France has no friends, only interests.
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These people really aim very badly.
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Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
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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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