Quote #21
The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.
More from Charles de Gaulle
- France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.
- Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
- Nothing great is done without great men, and they are great because they wanted it.
- It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
- The sword is the axis of the world and grandeur cannot be divided.
- Character is the virtue of hard times.
- Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
- Anything can happen someday, even that an act conforming to honour and honesty can end up, at the end of the line, as a good political deci…