Georges Clemenceau Quotes

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

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.

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?

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

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

The Germans may take Paris, but that will not prevent me from going on with the war. We will fight on the Loire, we will fight on the Garronne, we will fight even in the Pyrenees. And if at last we are driven off the Pyrenees, we will continue the war at sea.

What is said behind my back is said to my ass.

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

Oh, to be seventy again!

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

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

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

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

War is too serious to be entrusted to generals

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.

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

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

On September 17, 1914, Erzberger, the well-known German statesman, an eminent member of the Catholic Party, wrote to the Minister of War, General von Falkenhayn, "We must not worry about committing an offence against the rights of nations nor about violating the laws of humanity. Such feelings today are of secondary importance"? A month later, on October 21, 1914, he wrote in Der Tag, "If a way was found of entirely wiping out the whole of London it would be more humane to employ it than to allow the blood of A SINGLE GERMAN SOLDIER to be shed on the battlefield!"

All the great pleasures of life are silent.

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

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

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

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

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