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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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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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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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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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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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Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
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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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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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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
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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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It will not be any European statesman who will unite Europe: Europe will be united by the Chinese.
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I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
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These people really aim very badly.
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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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Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
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Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
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I wouldn't mind dying for France, but not for Air France.
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Character is the virtue of hard times.
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
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To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.
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