Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.

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 have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.

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?

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.