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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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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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It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
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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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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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How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
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What do you take me for, an idiot?
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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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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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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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Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
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My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
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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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Character is the virtue of hard times.
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I'm not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.
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One cannot govern with 'buts'.
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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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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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