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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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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 cannot govern with 'buts'.
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I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
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Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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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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I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
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I wouldn't mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.
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The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.
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To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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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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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
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Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
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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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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 might have had trouble saving France in 1946 - I didn't have television then.
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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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I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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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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