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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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He who laughs last didn't get the joke.
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Character is the virtue of hard times.
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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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Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
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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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The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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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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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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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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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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You'll live. Only the best get killed.
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To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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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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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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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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Why do you think that at 67 I would start a career as a dictator?
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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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I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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Today we are crushed by the sheer weight of the mechanized forces hurled against us, but we can still look to the future in which even greater mechanized forces will bring us victory. Therein lies the destiny of the world.
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Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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