One does not arrest Voltaire.

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

How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?

Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.

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.

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

I always thought I was Jeanne d'Arc and Bonaparte. How little one knows oneself.