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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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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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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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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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The future does not belong to men.
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Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
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Betting against gold is the same as betting on governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.
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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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One does not arrest Voltaire.
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Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
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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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France has no friends, only interests.
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It's impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself
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I'm not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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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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Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
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Long live free Quebec!
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What do you take me for, an idiot?
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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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These people really aim very badly.
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