Georges Clemenceau Quotes

In order to act, you must be somewhat insane .A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

What can a mere French minister do when associated with Lloyd George, who thinks he is Napoleon, and Woodrow Wilson, who thinks he is Jesus Christ?

If you don't vote Socialist/Communist before you are twenty, you have no heart - if you do vote Socialist/Communist after you are twenty, you have no head.

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.

There are only two perfectly useless things in this world. One is an appendix and the other is Poincaré.

Americans have no capacity for abstract thought, and make bad coffee.

Liberty is the right to discipline ourselves in order not to be disciplined by others

My home policy: I wage war; my foreign policy: I wage war. All the time I wage war.

The best time of love, is when one goes up the stairs.

I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace is an interlude during war.

America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.

All the great pleasures of life are silent.

My son is 22 years old. If he had not become a Communist at 22, I would have disowned him. If he is still a Communist at 30, I will do it then.

A man who has to be convinced to act before he acts is not a man of action. You must act as you breathe.

Not to be a socialist at twenty is proof of want of heart; to be one at thirty is proof of want of head.

War is a series of disasters which result in a winner.

A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Oh, to be seventy again!

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne.

Il est plus facile de faire la guerre que la paix. It is far easier to make war than to make peace.

Generals cannot be trusted with anything, not even with war.

It is easier to make war than to make peace.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves he isn't a man of action.

This time it will be a long one.

War is too serious to be entrusted to generals

War is a series of catastrophes that results in victory.

There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function.

All the great pleasures in life are silent.

War is much too important a matter to be left to the generals.

It is far easier to make war than peace.

My home policy: I wage war my foreign policy: I wage war. All the time I wage war.

I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.