How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

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.

We may go to the moon, but that' s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.

Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.

For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.

Soyons fermes, purs et fidèles ; au bout de nos peines, il y a la plus grande gloire du monde, celle des hommes qui n'ont pas cédé. [Let us be firm, pure and faithful; at the end of our sorrow, there is the greatest glory of the world, that of the men who did not give in.]