When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
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 better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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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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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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You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
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At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
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Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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Character is the virtue of hard times.
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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
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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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Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.
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In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented with anything else when one has come face to face with history?
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One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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