As an adolescent I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so.

Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.

Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.

Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.

Betting against gold is the same as betting on governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.

I am not bad, thank you. But don't worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.

I'm not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.