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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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I am not bad, thank you. But don't worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.
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Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
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At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.
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Character is the virtue of hard times.
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No, I'm not talking about the Russians I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!
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I might have had trouble saving France in 1946 - I didn't have television then.
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Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
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It's impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
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They really are bad shots.
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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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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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