Quotes from Georges Clemenceau

Military justice is to justice as military music is to music.

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

It is easier to make war than peace.

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.

A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed --I well know. For it is a sign that he has tried to surpass himself.

There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function.

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

There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function.

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

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

War is too important to be left to the generals

War is much too important a matter to be left to the generals.

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

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

A man who has to be convinced to act before he acts is not a man of action. You must act as you breathe.

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

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.