I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.

Whereas ordinary officers must be content with behaving correctly in front of their men, the great leaders have always carefully stage-managed their effects.

There can be no other criterion, no other standard than gold. Yes, gold which never changes, which can be shaped into ingots, bars, coins, which has no nationality and which is eternally and universally accepted as the unalterable fiduciary value par excellence.

You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.

We may go to the moon, but that' s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.

The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.

Old age is a shipwreck.