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Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
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
Memoirist
Military Personnel
Military Theorist
Politician
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Rijsel
Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle
General Charles Andre Joseph Marie de Gaulle
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My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
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China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese.
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France has no friends, only interests.
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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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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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How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
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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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Deliberation is a function of the many action is the function of one.
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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 cannot prevent the French from being French
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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
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