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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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He who laughs last didn't get the joke.
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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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Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
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I wouldn't mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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You'll live. Only the best get killed.
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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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Soyons fermes, purs et fidèles au bout de nos peines, il y a la plus grande gloire du monde, celle des hommes qui n'ont pas cédé. [Let us be firm, pure and faithful at the end of our sorrow, there is the greatest glory of the world, that of the men who did not give in.]
Charles de Gaulle
Betting against gold is the same as betting on governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.
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In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented with anything else when one has come face to face with history?
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France has no friends, only interests.
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As an adolescent I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so.
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I am not bad, thank you. But don't worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.
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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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Deliberation is a function of the many action is the function of one.
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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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Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
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Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
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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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Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.
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These people really aim very badly.
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