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What do you take me for, an idiot?
Charles de Gaulle
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Charles de Gaulle
Age: 79 †
Born: 1890
Born: November 22
Died: 1970
Died: November 9
Former President Of The French Republic
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Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle
General Charles Andre Joseph Marie de Gaulle
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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.
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I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
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Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
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I'm not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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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 have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Métro.
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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money. (On Vietnam War)
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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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It will not be any European statesman who will unite Europe: Europe will be united by the Chinese.
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You'll live. Only the best get killed.
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Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.
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We may go to the moon, but that' s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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France has no friends, only interests.
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