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

Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.

I cannot prevent the French from being French

In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented with anything else when one has come face to face with history?

A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.

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

The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.