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I cannot prevent the French from being French
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
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Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle
General Charles Andre Joseph Marie de Gaulle
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Long live Montreal, Long live Quebec! Long live Free Quebec!
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Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
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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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One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was one cannot judge life until death.
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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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One cannot govern with 'buts'.
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