Georges Clemenceau Quotes

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• All that I know I learned after I was thirty.
• America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
• 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.
• All the great pleasures of life are silent.
• War is too important a matter to be left to the military.
• 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 of…
• I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace is an interlude during war.
• A man who has to be convinced to act before he acts is not a man of action. You must act as you breathe.
• This time it will be a long one.
• In order to act, you must be somewhat insane .A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.
• When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves he isn't a man of action.
• A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. It is as if…
• A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne.
• My home policy: I wage war; my foreign policy: I wage war. All the time I wage war.
• 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,…
• War is a series of disasters which result in a winner.
• One begins to realize that art... in setting out to express nature with ever growing accuracy, teaches us to look, to perceive, to feel. The…
• It is easier to make war than to make peace.
• Oh, to be seventy again!
• Not to be a socialist at twenty is proof of want of heart; to be one at thirty is proof of want of head.

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