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

War is a series of catastrophes that results in victory.

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

My home policy: I wage war my foreign policy: I wage war. All the time I wage war.

It is far easier to make war than peace.

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

L'homme qui n'a pas été anarchiste à seize ans est un imbécile. Mais c'en est un autre, s'il l'est e...

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War is too important to be left to the generals

A mans life is interesting primarily when he has failed. I well know. For its a sign that he tried t...

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

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All the great pleasures in life are silent.

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

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Georges Clemenceau

French Statesman

Born: 1841-09-28

Died: 1929-11-24

Georges Benjamin Clemenceau (28 September 1841 – 24 November 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. He was one of the principal architects of the Treaty of Versailles at the France Peace Conference of 1919.More