Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself

It's impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.

One cannot govern with 'buts'.

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.

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

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.

In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?