Quotes by Georges Clémenceau

“All that I know I learned after I was thirty.”

“I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.”

“All the great pleasures in life are silent.”

“War is a series of catastrophes that results in victory.”

“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.”

“There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function.”

“War is much too important a matter to be left to the generals.”

“War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.”

“It is far easier to make war than peace.”

“My home policy: I wage war my foreign policy: I wage war. All the time I wage war. ”

“L'homme qui n'a pas été anarchiste à seize ans est un imbécile. Mais c'en est un autre, s'il l'est encore à quarante.”

“War is too important to be left to the generals”

“A mans life is interesting primarily when he has failed. I well know. For its a sign that he tried to surpass himself.”

“The enemy is at the gates of the city. The day is perhaps not far off when our breasts will be the last defence for our country. We are the children of the Revolution. Let us take inspiration from ...”

“Bismarck is a dangerous enemy, but even more dangerous perhaps as a friend: he showed us Tunis, placing us in conflict with England, and is now negotiating with us over the Congo.”

“Whether we like it or not, whether it pleases us or shocks us, the French Revolution is a bloc ... a bloc from which nothing can be separated, because historical truth does not permit it. ... the R...”

“It was I who gave the title J'accuse to Zola's letter.”

“No, my friend, Germany will not declare war on us [at this moment]. But in my opinion the European situation is such that a great armed conflict is inevitable at some time which I cannot foresee, a...”

“I think war is inevitable. We must do nothing to provoke it, but we must be ready for it; helped by Russia and England, doubtless by Spain also and perhaps by Italy as well, we may be able to win. ...”

“In the distance huge trees were still blazing, around us was a waste of ashes and of half-consumed boughs, and the falling rain seemed only to quicken the dying conflagration. In some of the great ...”