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
Not to be a socialist at twenty is proof of want of heart; to be one at thirty is proof of want of 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.
Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.
War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men.
War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.
It is far easier to make war than peace.
I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.
Aman who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but hes 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.
It is easier to make war than to make peace.
When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves he isn't a man of action.
Generals cannot be trusted with anything, not even with war.
War is too serious to be entrusted to generals
Liberty is the right to discipline ourselves in order not to be disciplined by others
This time it will be a long one.