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

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

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.

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

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.

I am not bad, thank you. But don't worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.