For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France.

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.

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.

Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.

I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.

Whereas ordinary officers must be content with behaving correctly in front of their men, the great leaders have always carefully stage-managed their effects.

One does not arrest Voltaire.