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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
Memoirist
Military Personnel
Military Theorist
Politician
Statesperson
Rijsel
Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle
General Charles Andre Joseph Marie de Gaulle
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Suicide

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My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
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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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The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.
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Deliberation is a function of the many action is the function of one.
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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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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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How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
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To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared, either in scope or in rapidity.
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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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You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
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France has no friends, only interests.
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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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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 have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Métro.
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Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges that's the way he shows his passion for equality
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The cemetery is filled with indispensable men.
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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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In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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One does not arrest Voltaire.
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