All the great pleasures of life are silent. Georges Clemenceau More Quotes by Georges Clemenceau More Quotes From Georges Clemenceau 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. Georges Clemenceau vote twenties heart 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. Georges Clemenceau fighting sea war 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? Georges Clemenceau government jesus thinking In order to act, you must be somewhat insane .A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking. Georges Clemenceau learning teaching men Liberty is the right to discipline ourselves in order not to be disciplined by others Georges Clemenceau discipline liberty order What is said behind my back is said to my ass. Georges Clemenceau behind-my-back ass said All that I know I learned after I was thirty. Georges Clemenceau experience keys birthday America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization. Georges Clemenceau civilization funny america Americans have no capacity for abstract thought, and make bad coffee. Georges Clemenceau abstract coffee capacity My home policy: I wage war; my foreign policy: I wage war. All the time I wage war. Georges Clemenceau foreign-policy home war There are only two perfectly useless things in this world. One is an appendix and the other is Poincaré. Georges Clemenceau useless-things two world The best time of love, is when one goes up the stairs. Georges Clemenceau best-times stairs love-is I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace is an interlude during war. Georges Clemenceau military war peace 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, "We must not worry about committing an offence against the rights of nations nor about violating the laws of humanity. Such feelings today are of secondary importance"? A month later, on October 21, 1914, he wrote in Der Tag, "If a way was found of entirely wiping out the whole of London it would be more humane to employ it than to allow the blood of A SINGLE GERMAN SOLDIER to be shed on the battlefield!" Georges Clemenceau party rights war 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. Georges Clemenceau communist years son A man who has to be convinced to act before he acts is not a man of action. You must act as you breathe. Georges Clemenceau action men life War is a series of disasters which result in a winner. Georges Clemenceau winner disaster war Not to be a socialist at twenty is proof of want of heart; to be one at thirty is proof of want of head. Georges Clemenceau twenties want heart 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. Georges Clemenceau fear inspirational life Il est plus facile de faire la guerre que la paix. It is far easier to make war than to make peace. Georges Clemenceau plus easier war
