Champagne! In victory, one deserves it; in defeat one needs it.

God has decreed that there be sick and poor in this world, but in the next it will be the other way around.

A leader has the right to be beaten, but never the right to be surprised.

Do you know what astonished me the most in this world? The inability of force to create anything.

The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain.

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.