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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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Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
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Never relinquish the initiative.
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Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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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 wouldn't mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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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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How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
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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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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
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Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
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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 evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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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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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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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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