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.
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
Il est plus facile de faire la guerre que la paix. It is far easier to make war than to make peace.
War is a series of disasters which result in a winner.
War is too important a matter to be left to the military.
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!
I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace is an interlude during war.
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.
My home policy: I wage war; my foreign policy: I wage war. All the time I wage war.