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!

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

I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money." (On Vietnam War)

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.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.

One does not arrest Voltaire.