Georges Clemenceau Quotes
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This time it will be a long one.
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War is a series of disasters which result in a winner.
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My home policy: I wage war; my foreign policy: I wage war. All the time I wage war.
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I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace is an interlude during war.
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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.
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Il est plus facile de faire la guerre que la paix. It is far easier to make war than to make peace.
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A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne.
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Not to be a socialist at twenty is proof of want of heart; to be one at thirty is proof of want of head.
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It is easier to make war than to make peace.
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Oh, to be seventy again!
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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?
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Americans have no capacity for abstract thought, and make bad coffee.
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In order to act, you must be somewhat insane .A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.
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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.
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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.
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There are only two perfectly useless things in this world. One is an appendix and the other is Poincaré.
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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. It is as if a tennis player before returning a ball stopped to think about his views of the physical and mental advantages of tennis. You must act as you breathe.
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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.
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The best time of love, is when one goes up the stairs.
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All the great pleasures of life are silent.
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All that I know I learned after I was thirty.
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A man who has to be convinced to act before he acts is not a man of action. You must act as you breathe.
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America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
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Generals cannot be trusted with anything, not even with war.
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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves he isn't a man of action.
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Monet's garden must be included with his works, because he combined the magic of an adaptation of nature with the work of a painter of light. An extension of the studio into the openair, with color tones lavishly spread out on all sides to exercise the eye with seductive vibrations, from which a feverishly aroused retina expects unquenchable joy.
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What is said behind my back is said to my ass.
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Liberty is the right to discipline ourselves in order not to be disciplined by others
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One begins to realize that art... in setting out to express nature with ever growing accuracy, teaches us to look, to perceive, to feel. The stone itself becomes an organic substance, and one can feel it being transformed as one moment in its life succeeds another.
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War is too serious to be entrusted to generals
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Georges Clemenceau
- Born: September 28, 1841
- Died: November 24, 1929
- Occupation: French Statesman
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