What do you take me for, an idiot?

I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money." (On Vietnam War)

Old France, weighed down with history, prostrated by wars and revolutions, endlessly vacillating from greatness to decline, but revived, century after century, by the genius of renewal!

Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

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.

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.