Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.

Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

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 respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.

I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Métro.

No, I'm not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!