Quote #17
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
More from Charles de Gaulle
- The future does not belong to men...
- The sword is the axis of the world and grandeur cannot be divided.
- Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
- Nothing great is done without great men, and they are great because they wanted it.
- I am not ill. But do not worry, one day, I will certainly die.
- France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.
- How can you govern a country which has two hundred and forty-six varieties of cheese?
- The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.