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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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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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We may go to the moon, but that' s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.
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The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.
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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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You'll live. Only the best get killed.
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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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Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
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I might have had trouble saving France in 1946 - I didn't have television then.
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I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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Today we are crushed by the sheer weight of the mechanized forces hurled against us, but we can still look to the future in which even greater mechanized forces will bring us victory. Therein lies the destiny of the world.
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France has no friends, only interests.
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The cemetery is filled with indispensable men.
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Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
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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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I am not bad, thank you. But don't worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.
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I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
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