“The leader is always alone before bad fates.”
Toujours le chef est seul en face du mauvais destin.
in Mémoires de guerre.
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“He who has God alone for his leader, he alone is free.”
20.
Every Good Man is Free
Remarks by President Obama and Mrs. Obama in Town Hall with Youth of Northern Ireland, Belfast Waterfront, Belfast, Northern Ireland (17 June 2013)
2013
“No party is as bad as its state and national leaders.”
"I Accept the Nomination", Life magazine, 31 May 1928 http://books.google.com/books?id=zuINAAAAIAAJ&q=%22No+party+is+as+bad+as+its+state+and+national+leaders%22&pg=PA8#v=onepage
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“Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.”
Mary Alice Warner, Dayna Beilenson (1987) Women of faith and spirit: their words & thoughts, p. 42
1980s
“… intentions, good or bad, are not enough. There's luck or fate or something else that takes over…”
Source: The Winter of Our Discontent
“To make a fortune some assistance from fate is essential. Ability alone is insufficient.”
Book III, ch. 4.
The Japanese Family Storehouse (1688)
“The best of men cannot suspend their fate:
The good die early, and the bad die late.”
Character of the Late Dr. S. Annesley (1715).
IX. On Providence, Fate, and Fortune.
On the Gods and the Cosmos
Context: To believe that human things, especially their material constitution, are ordered not only by celestial beings but by the celestial bodies is a reasonable and true belief. Reason shows that health and sickness, good fortune and bad fortune, arise according to our deserts from that source. But to attribute men's acts of injustice and lust to fate, is to make ourselves good and the Gods bad. Unless by chance a man meant by such a statement that in general all things are for the good of the world and for those who are in a natural state, but that bad education or weakness of nature changes the goods of Fate for the worse. Just as it happens that the Sun, which is good for all, may be injurious to persons with ophthalmia or fever.