Action Quotes by Georges Clemenceau

It is far easier to make war than peace.

— Georges Clemenceau

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…

— Georges Clemenceau

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

— Georges Clemenceau

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

— Georges Clemenceau

Monet's garden must be included with his works, because he combined the magic of an adaptation of nature with the work of a painter…

— Georges Clemenceau

Il est plus facile de faire la guerre que la paix. It is far easier to make war than to make peace.

— Georges Clemenceau

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

— Georges Clemenceau

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

— Georges Clemenceau

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

— Georges Clemenceau

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

— Georges Clemenceau

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

— Georges Clemenceau

“Fourteen Points? The Good Lord only gave us Ten, and do we abide by those?”

— Georges Clemenceau

It is easier to make war than to make peace.

— Georges Clemenceau

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

— Georges Clemenceau

What can a mere French minister do when associated with Lloyd George, who thinks he is Napoleon, and Woodrow Wilson, who thinks he is…

— Georges Clemenceau