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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
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Voltaire

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I wouldn't mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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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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It will not be any European statesman who will unite Europe: Europe will be united by the Chinese.
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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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Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese.
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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 am not bad, thank you. But don't worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.
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History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.
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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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Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes 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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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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Long live Montreal, Long live Quebec! Long live Free Quebec!
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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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I'm not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
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