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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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I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Métro.
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Never relinquish the initiative.
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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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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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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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I might have had trouble saving France in 1946 - I didn't have television then.
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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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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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The future does not belong to men.
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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese.
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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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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself
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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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I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
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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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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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