Quotes About Clemenceau

He [Clemenceau] had one illusion - France; and one disillusion - mankind.

He [Clemenceau] had one illusion—France; and one disillusion—mankind, including Frenchmen.

battuta di Clemenceau: l'America è l'unica nazione nella storia che sia passata direttamente dalla barbarie alla decadenza, senza il consueto intervallo di civiltà.

The Treaty of Guarantee was signed accordingly by Wilson and Lloyd George and Clemenceau. The United States Senate refused to ratify the treaty. They repudiated President Wilson's signature. And we, who had deferred so much to his opinions and wishes in all this business of peace-making, were told without much ceremony that we ought to be better informed about the American Constitution.

incensed Clemenceau angrily denounced Ferry for dragging France into this mess, which he charged that Parliament had not properly authorized. China, Clemenceau warned, had an "inexhaustible reservoir" of men, and fighting such a power would sap France of its manpower for years to come.