Georges Clemenceau Quotes About War

Quotes about: War

• It is easier to make war than to make peace.

  Georges Clemenceau

  Peace, War, Humanity

  Speech, Verdun, France, 20 July 1919

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

  Georges Clemenceau

  Peace, Military, War

• 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

• 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.

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

  Georges Clemenceau

  War, Winner, Disaster

• 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

• 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)

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

  Georges Clemenceau

  War, Trusted

• War is too serious to be entrusted to generals

  Georges Clemenceau

  War, Serious

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