Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

France has no friends, only interests.

Old age is a shipwreck.

Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.

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.

Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.

The Jews remain what they have been at all times: an elite people, self-confident and domineering.