No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
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.
Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.