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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
Statesperson
Rijsel
Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle
General Charles Andre Joseph Marie de Gaulle
Voltaire
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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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How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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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 one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
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In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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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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Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
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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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Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself
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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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What do you take me for, an idiot?
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Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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You'll live. Only the best get killed.
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I might have had trouble saving France in 1946 - I didn't have television then.
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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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No, I'm not talking about the Russians I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!
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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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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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