Georges Clemenceau Quotes about War

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

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.

Georges Clemenceau

War, Fighting, Sea

Quoted in J. Hampden Jackson, Clemenceau and the Third Republic (1946)

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

Georges Clemenceau

War, Home, Foreign Policy

Speech to French Chamber of Deputies, 8 Mar. 1918

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

Georges Clemenceau

War, Winner, Disaster

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

Georges Clemenceau

Peace, Military, War

War is too serious to be entrusted to generals

Georges Clemenceau

War, Serious

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!"

Georges Clemenceau

War, Party, Rights

"Grandeur and Misery of Victory". Book by Georges Clemenceau, trans. F. M. Atkinson, p. 279 (quoting Matthias Erzberger), 1930.