Georges Clemenceau Quotes (23 Quotes)

All the great pleasures of life are silent.

A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne.

It is far easier to make war than peace.

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. You must act as you breathe.

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

In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Not to be a socialist at twenty is proof of want of heart to be one at thirty is proof of want of head.

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Oh to be seventy again.

This time it will be a long one.

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

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.

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

What is said behind my back is said to my ass.

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

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.

It is easier to make war than to make peace.

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

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

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

War is too important a matter to be left to the military.

War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.