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Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges that's the way he shows his passion for equality
Charles de Gaulle
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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
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Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle
General Charles Andre Joseph Marie de Gaulle
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I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.
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Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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He who laughs last didn't get the joke.
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Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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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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China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese.
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France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.
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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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I am not bad, thank you. But don't worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.
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