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The leader is always alone before bad fates.

Charles de Gaulle

You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Generosity Skin Soul Start Yourself
Don’t think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Fall Grave Man Thinking World Yourself
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.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Compare Rapid Scope Transformation World
The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Better Love Man Myself
The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Oneself Risk True Willing
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.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Favor Myself Talk Travel
The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Desire Domination Passion Privilege Time
Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Character Face Fall Himself Man
My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Country Face heavy Myself Togetherness Trial
When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Myself Thinking
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Love Nation Patriot People Yourself
A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Alone Country Friendship Greatness Name Worth
I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Decision Harmony Myself View
Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Action Alone Man Oneself Work
Whereas ordinary officers must be content with behaving correctly in front of their men, the great leaders have always carefully stage-managed their effects.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Content Effect Leadership Man Management Ordinary
In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented with anything else when one has come face to face with history?
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Face Greatness History Hope Love

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