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
Americans have no capacity for abstract thought, and make bad coffee.
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.
All the great pleasures of life are silent.
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.
There are only two perfectly useless things in this world. One is an appendix and the other is Poincaré.
My home policy: I wage war; my foreign policy: I wage war. All the time I wage war.
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?
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.
All that I know I learned after I was thirty.
In order to act, you must be somewhat insane .A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.