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

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

There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.

Soyons fermes, purs et fidèles ; au bout de nos peines, il y a la plus grande gloire du monde, celle des hommes qui n'ont pas cédé. [Let us be firm, pure and faithful; at the end of our sorrow, there is the greatest glory of the world, that of the men who did not give in.]

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

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 feel not a person but an instrument of destiny.