Georges Clemenceau
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Georges Clemenceau (September 28, 1841 – November 24, 1929) was a French doctor, journalist and statesman.
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Attributed
- War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men.
- War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.
- It is far easier to make war than to make peace.
- America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to decadence without the usual interval of civilization.
- All that I know I learned after I was thirty.
- In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.
- Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
- Mr. Wilson bores me with his Fourteen Points. Why, Almighty God has only Ten Commandments!
- 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.
- Americans have no capacity for abstract thought, and make bad coffee.
- My home policy: I wage war; my foreign policy: I wage war. All the time I wage war.
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