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Men can have friends, statesmen cannot.
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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Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself
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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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In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented with anything else when one has come face to face with history?
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The cemetery is filled with indispensable men.
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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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What do you take me for, an idiot?
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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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I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
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I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.
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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 are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
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I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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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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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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Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
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The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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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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You'll live. Only the best get killed.
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The future does not belong to men.
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