Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
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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Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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Character is the virtue of hard times.
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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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Don’t think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
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You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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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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France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.
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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
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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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The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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I wouldn’t mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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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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