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One cannot govern with 'buts'.
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
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Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle
General Charles Andre Joseph Marie de Gaulle
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It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared, either in scope or in rapidity.
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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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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented with anything else when one has come face to face with history?
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Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.
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Why do you think that at 67 I would start a career as a dictator?
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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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Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
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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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It will not be any European statesman who will unite Europe: Europe will be united by the Chinese.
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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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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself
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Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
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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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You'll live. Only the best get killed.
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My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
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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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It's impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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