Charles de Gaulle Quotes

Our Union cannot safely stand on the cold calculation of interest alone.

All the citizens both of Poland and of Lithuania ought to form an indivisible whole .... They must love each other with a deep, sincere, fraternal love, like the members of one body, like inhabitants of one and the same republic.

National unity does not only have to occur when swords are swung at us.

The most successful of the nations of the world are those who do not fall into the lure of secession but who, through thick and thin, forge unity in diversity.

Personally, I believe in self-determination, but in the context of one South Africa - so that my self-determination is based in this region, and with my people.

There is no stability without solidarity and no solidarity without stability.

Of all the fictions we heard last week in Tampa, the one I find most troubling is this: If we all just go our own way, our nation will be stronger for it. Because if we sever the threads that connect us, the only people who will go far are those who are already ahead.

There is no Dubai and Abu Dhabi; we are one. Whoever doesn't understand this should do their homework before they start talking. We will be there for each other when we need it.

In Washington, the translation of E Pluribus Unum has been lost. The belief that we are one nation - united in purpose - caring about and for one another is no longer the practice.

Solidarity is the basis of my politics.

When the sense of solidarity has been developed to such a point that each one feels the cause of all others as his own, we shall be drawing near to international and to social peace.

Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.

We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old.

Within each such social group, a feeling of solidarity prevails, a compelling need to work together and a joy in doing so that represent a high moral value.

We must remember that North Carolina is more than a collection of regions and people. We are one state, one people, one family, bound by a common concern for each other.

We aren't as divided as we think we are. We're not just Republicans sitting in one corner, and Democrats sitting in the other corner.

You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.

We have had in our nation a well-celebrated Declaration of Independence. But our success as a country will depend upon a new 'Declaration of Inter-dependence.' A belief in how much we need each other, how much we share one common destiny.

Unity was the real key to the success of the United States. The constitution of 1787 was in many respects the imposition of a central national government upon the quarrelsome states... In a country so constituted, the weaknesses of one state were compensated for by the strengths of another.

United, France and Germany can accomplish and prevent anything.... On their union depends, therefore, not only their own welfare but also the destiny of all of Europe.

I know and see every day the extent of geographical feeling, and the necessity of feeling if we mean to preserve and invigorate the Union.

There are bonds of fraternity linking democratic countries.

It is not a handful of rebels we are facing, but a people resolved to defend their freedom. Here everybody is Viet Minh. Whatever happens, you cannot destroy a whole people.

In the hour of danger there is no partisanship.

Brothers, we must be one as the English are, or we shall soon all be destroyed.