Georges Clemenceau
Georges Clemenceau
Georges Benjamin Clemenceauwas a French statesman who led the nation in the First World War. A leader of the Radical Party, he played a central role in politics during the Third Republic. Clemenceau served as the Prime Minister of France from 1906 to 1909, and again from 1917 to 1920. In favour of a total victory over the German Empire, he militated for the restitution of Alsace-Lorraine to France. He was one of the principal architects of the Treaty of...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionLeader
Date of Birth28 September 1841
CountryFrance
Il est plus facile de faire la guerre que la paix. It is far easier to make war than to make peace.
A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne.
War is a series of disasters which result in a winner.
Oh, to be seventy again!
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.
The best time of love, is when one goes up the stairs.
Not to be a socialist at twenty is proof of want of heart; to be one at thirty is proof of want of head.
What is said behind my back is said to my ass.
War is too important a matter to be left to the military.
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.
A man who has to be convinced to act before he acts is not a man of action. You must act as you breathe.
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!
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace is an interlude during war.