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I'm not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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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Today we are crushed by the sheer weight of the mechanized forces hurled against us, but we can still look to the future in which even greater mechanized forces will bring us victory. Therein lies the destiny of the world.
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In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
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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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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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What do you take me for, an idiot?
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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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Character is the virtue of hard times.
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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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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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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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The cemetery is filled with indispensable men.
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China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese.
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The future does not belong to men.
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