Georges Clemenceau Quotes

#1. 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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#2. All the great pleasures of life are silent.

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#3. When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves he isn't a man of action.

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#4. This time it will be a long one.

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#5. The Germans may take Paris, but that will not prevent me from going on with the war. We will fight on the Loire, we will fight on the Garronne, we will fight even in the Pyrenees. And if at last we are driven off the Pyrenees, we will continue the war at sea.

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

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#7. Oh, to be seventy again!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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#14. All that I know I learned after I was thirty.

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#15. What can a mere French minister do when associated with Lloyd George, who thinks he is Napoleon, and Woodrow Wilson, who thinks he is Jesus Christ?

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#16. War is too serious to be entrusted to generals

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

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

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#19. 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.

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

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#21. War is a series of disasters which result in a winner.

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#22. Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

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#23. Fourteen Points? The Good Lord only gave us Ten, and do we abide by those?

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

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

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#26. 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.

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#27. Liberty is the right to discipline ourselves in order not to be disciplined by others

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#28. The best time of love, is when one goes up the stairs.

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#29. War is too important to be left to the generals

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#30. Generals cannot be trusted with anything, not even with war.

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

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

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#34. 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 stone itself becomes an organic substance, and one can feel it being transformed as one moment in its life succeeds another.

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

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#36. 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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