Georges Clemenceau Quotes

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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.

  Georges Clemenceau

  Funny, Civilization, America

  Attributed in Saturday Review of Literature, 1 Dec. 1945

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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.

  Georges Clemenceau

  Heart, Twenties, Vote

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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?

  Georges Clemenceau

  Jesus, Thinking, Government

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

  Georges Clemenceau

  Order, Discipline, Liberty

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

  Georges Clemenceau

  Teaching, Learning, Men

  "Clemenceau. The Events Of His Life As Told By Himself To His Former Secretary Jean Martet". Translated by Milton Waldman, Chapter 12, 1930.

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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.

  Georges Clemenceau

  War, Fighting, Sea

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

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

  Georges Clemenceau

  Behind My Back, Ass, Said

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

  Georges Clemenceau

  Coffee, Abstract, Capacity

  "The Europeans". Book by Luigi Barzini, p. 225, 1984.

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• Oh, to be seventy again!

  Georges Clemenceau

  Funny, Birthday, Humor

  "Ego 3". Book by James Agate, 1938.

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• 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

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• War is too serious to be entrusted to generals

  Georges Clemenceau

  War, Serious

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

  Georges Clemenceau

  War, Winner, Disaster

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

  Georges Clemenceau

  Useless Things, Two, World

  "Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World". Book by Margaret MacMillan, p. 33, 2003.

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

  Georges Clemenceau

  Peace, Military, War

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• All that I know I learned after I was thirty.

  Georges Clemenceau

  Birthday, Keys, Experience

  "And Madly Teach : A Layman Looks at Public School Education". Book by Mortimer Brewster Smith, 1949.

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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.

  Georges Clemenceau

  Life, Men, Action

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

  Georges Clemenceau

  Love Is, Stairs, Best Times

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• 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.

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• All the great pleasures of life are silent.

  Georges Clemenceau

  Life, Silence, Silent

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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.

  Georges Clemenceau

  War, Easier, Plus

  Speech at Verdun, 20 July 1919, in 'Discours de Paix' (1938) p. 122

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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.

  Georges Clemenceau

  Heart, Twenties, Want

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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.

  Georges Clemenceau

  Son, Years, Communist

  Attributed in Bennett Cerf, Try and Stop Me (1944)

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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.

  Georges Clemenceau

  Inspirational, Life, Fear

  "Clemenceau, The Events of His Life as Told by Himself to His Former Secretary, Jean Martet". Book by Georges Clemenceau, 1930.

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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.

  Georges Clemenceau

  Land, Tyrants, Thrones

  "Antisemitism: Part One of The Origins of Totalitarianism". Book by Hannah Arendt, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, p. 127, 2012.

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

  Georges Clemenceau

  War, Trusted

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