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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 the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented with anything else when one has come face to face with history?
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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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I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
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Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
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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 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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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
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Why do you think that at 67 I would start a career as a dictator?
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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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I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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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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Deliberation is a function of the many action is the function of one.
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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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He who laughs last didn't get the joke.
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History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.
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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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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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