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 wouldn't mind dying for France, but not for Air France.

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.

Old France, weighed down with history, prostrated by wars and revolutions, endlessly vacillating from greatness to decline, but revived, century after century, by the genius of renewal!

Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.

Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.