One cannot govern with ‘buts’.
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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It’s impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
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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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When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.
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Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that’s the way he shows his passion for equality.
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Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
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For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.
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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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The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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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 evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
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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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