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
War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men.
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.
When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves he isn't a man of action.
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.
A man who has to be convinced to act before he acts is not a man of action. You must act as you breathe.
In order to act, you must be somewhat insane .A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.
Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.
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.
It is easier to make war than to make peace.
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