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Quotes By Charles De Gaulle

Charles Andre Joseph De Gaulle was born at Lille in 1890. He was president of France from January 1959 to April 1969. He died in 1970.

When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.

As usual, I have against me the bourgeois, the officers and the diplomatists, and for me only the people who take the Metro.

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

The French will only be united under the threat of danger. Nobody can simply bring together a country that has 256 kinds of cheese.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power. - Charles de Gaulle

I've never any pity for conceited people because I think they carry their comfort about with them.

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