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Why do you think that at 67 I would start a career as a dictator?
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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I'm not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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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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They really are bad shots.
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I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
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One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.
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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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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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Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
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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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Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
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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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How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
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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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