Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.

No, I'm not talking about the Russians; I mean the Germans. In spite of everything, to have pushed so far!

In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.

Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.

How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?

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.]

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.