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.

Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.

It's better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.

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

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Old age is a shipwreck.

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