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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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It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
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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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A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.
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What do you take me for, an idiot?
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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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Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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I'm not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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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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To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
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I might have had trouble saving France in 1946 - I didn't have television then.
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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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Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.
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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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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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China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese.
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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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It's impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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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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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.]
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