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25 Interesting Quotes By Georges Clémenceau

Famous As: Former French Prime Minister
Born On: September 28, 1841
Died On: November 24, 1929
Born In: Mouilleron-en-Pareds, Vendee
Died At Age: 88
Georges Benjamin Clemenceau was a French politician, journalist, and physician. He served as Prime Minister of France during the First World War. He represented the Radical Party, and played a key role in the politics of the 'French Third Republic.' He served as Prime Minister for the first time from 1906 to 1909, and for the second time from 1917 to 1920. He was one of the main architects of the 'Treaty of Versailles' at the 'Paris Peace Conference' after the First World War. Clemenceau adopted a very harsh stance against the vanquished Germany, and was able to force Germany for large sums for reparations. Here is a collection of famous quotes and sayings by Georges Clémenceau  war, sea, fighting, government, learning, man, experience, discipline, Germany, liberty, foreign policy, America, civilization, etc.
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Oh, to be seventy again!

Oh, to be seventy again!

Georges Clémenceau
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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 Clémenceau
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.

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 Clémenceau
All the great pleasures of life are silent.

All the great pleasures of life are silent.

Georges Clémenceau
War is too important a matter to be left to the military.

War is too important a matter to be left to the military.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Georges Clémenceau
All that I know I learned after I was thirty.

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.

Georges Clémenceau
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?

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

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

Georges Clémenceau
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.

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 Clémenceau

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 Clémenceau

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 Clémenceau

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.

Georges Clémenceau

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.

Georges Clémenceau