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Georges Clemenceau [1841-1929] French
Rank: 102
Leader, French Politician


Georges Benjamin Clemenceau was a French politician, physician, and journalist who served as Prime Minister of France during the First World War. A leader of the Radical Party, he played a central role in the politics of the French Third Republic.
Clemenceau first served as Prime Minister from 1906 to 1909, and then again from 1917 to 1920. 

Peace, Experience, History, War



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In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.
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America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization. History
102
Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.
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I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war. Peace, War
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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 tried to surpass himself.
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War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.
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It is far easier to make war than peace. Peace
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All that I know I learned after I was thirty. Experience
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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. You must act as you breathe.
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War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men.
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A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne.
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My home policy: I wage war; my foreign policy: I wage war. All the time I wage war.
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