Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
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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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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My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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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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One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.
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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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France cannot be France without greatness.
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How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
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Old age is a shipwreck.
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Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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