Georges Clemenceau Short Quotes

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It is easier to make war than make peace.

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War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men.

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

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Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

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

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Americans have no capacity for abstract thought, and make bad coffee.

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Mr. Wilson bores me with his Fourteen Points; why, God Almighty has only Ten!

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

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God Almighty was satisfied with Ten Commandments. Mr Wilson requires Fourteen Points.

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My home policy? I wage war. My foreign policy? I wage war. Always, everywhere, I wage war.

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There are only two perfectly useless things in this world. One is an appendix and the other is Poincaré.

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Yes, we have won the war, and not without difficulty. But now we must win the peace, and perhaps that will be harder.

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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.

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My son is 22 years old. If he had not become a Communist at 22, I would have disowned him. If he is still a Communist at 30, I will do it then.

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America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.

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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.

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I have come to the conclusion that force is right. Why is this chicken here? (pointing to his plate). Because it was not strong enough to resist those who wanted to kill it. And a very good thing too!

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