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Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
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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Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
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Soyons fermes, purs et fidèles au bout de nos peines, il y a la plus grande gloire du monde, celle des hommes qui n'ont pas cédé. [Let us be firm, pure and faithful at the end of our sorrow, there is the greatest glory of the world, that of the men who did not give in.]
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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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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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I'm not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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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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I wouldn't mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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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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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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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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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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It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
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What do you take me for, an idiot?
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France has no friends, only interests.
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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself
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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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Betting against gold is the same as betting on governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.
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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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