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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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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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Victory often goes to the army that makes the least mistakes, not the most brilliant plans.
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I'm not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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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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At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.
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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
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One does not arrest Voltaire.
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Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.
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Never relinquish the initiative.
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France has no friends, only interests.
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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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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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In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
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Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
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You'll live. Only the best get killed.
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Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.
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The cemetery is filled with indispensable men.
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Long live free Quebec!
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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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No, I'm not talking about the Russians I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!
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