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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
Memoirist
Military Personnel
Military Theorist
Politician
Statesperson
Rijsel
Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle
General Charles Andre Joseph Marie de Gaulle
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I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
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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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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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I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
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I'm not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.
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What do you take me for, an idiot?
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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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I am not bad, thank you. But don't worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.
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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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I might have had trouble saving France in 1946 - I didn't have television then.
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It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
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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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For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
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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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