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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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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's impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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Character is the virtue of hard times.
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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 can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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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 will not be any European statesman who will unite Europe: Europe will be united by the Chinese.
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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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Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
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Deliberation is a function of the many action is the function of one.
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I wouldn't mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.
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One cannot govern with 'buts'.
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I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself
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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential.
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