Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Georges Clemenceau (French Head of State)

Georges Benjamin Clemenceau (1841–1929) was a French statesman who led the nation in the First World War. A leader of the Radical Party, he played a central role in politics during the Third Republic. Clemenceau served as the Prime Minister of France from 1906 to 1909, and again from 1917 to 1920. In favour of a total victory over the German Empire, he militated for the restitution of Alsace-Lorraine to France. He was one of the principal architects of the Treaty of Versailles at the France Peace Conference of 1919. Nicknamed “Père la Victoire” or “Le Tigre”, he took a harsh position against defeated Germany, though not quite as much as the President Raymond Poincaré, and won agreement on Germany’s payment of large sums for reparations.

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In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.
Georges Clemenceau
Topics: Insanity

War is too important a matter to be left to the military.
Georges Clemenceau
Topics: The Military, Navy, Army

It is far easier to make war than to make peace.
Georges Clemenceau
Topics: War, Peace

War is a series of catastrophes that results in victory.
Georges Clemenceau
Topics: War, Victory, Failures, Mistakes

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
Topics: Fail, Life, Mistake, Failure, Rest

War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.
Georges Clemenceau

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn’t a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.
Georges Clemenceau
Topics: Action

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
Topics: Failure, Wisdom, Mistakes, Failures, Life, Living Well

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.
Georges Clemenceau
Topics: Experience, Wisdom

America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
Georges Clemenceau
Topics: Knowledge, Doubt, America

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

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he’s not a man of action. It is as if a tennis player before returning a ball stopped to think about his views of the physical and mental advantages of tennis. You must act as you breathe.
Georges Clemenceau

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