In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.

In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.

Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.

Yes, it is Europe, from the Atlantic to the Urals, it is Europe, it is the whole of Europe, that will decide the fate of the world.

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.

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

It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.