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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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In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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You'll live. Only the best get killed.
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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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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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One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.
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I'm not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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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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What do you take me for, an idiot?
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It's impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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Long live free Quebec!
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I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
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One cannot govern with 'buts'.
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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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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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One does not arrest Voltaire.
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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.
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