Diplomats Are Useful Only In Fair Weather.

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.

Since A Politician Never Believes What He Says, He Is Quite Surprised To Be Taken At His Word.

A True Leader Always Keeps An Element Of Surprise Up His Sleeve, Which Others Cannot Grasp But Which Keeps His Public Excited And Breathless.

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!

You Start Out Giving Your Hat, Then You Give Your Coat, Then Your Shirt, Then Your Skin And Finally Your Soul.