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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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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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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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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 might have had trouble saving France in 1946 - I didn't have television then.
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These people really aim very badly.
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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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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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Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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