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It is better to have a bad method than to have none.

Charles de Gaulle

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Angry Myself Right Time Wrong
I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Decision Harmony Myself View
Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Authority Build Shelter Silence Strong Weakness
He who laughs last didn’t get the joke.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Dumb Himself Joke Laughter
The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Oneself Risk True Willing
Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Believe Himself Politics Quite Word
France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Build Image Nation Sword
We may go to the moon, but that’ s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Discover Distance Far Greatness Lying Moon
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 leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Judgement Leadership Narrow Ordinary People
Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Attraction Difficult Embrace Himself Realization
For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Dreams Glory Herself
In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?
CHARLES DE GAULLE

History Man Myself Satisfaction Solitude Temptation Yourself
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
Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
CHARLES DE GAULLE

Authority Distance 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

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