In order to act, you must be somewhat insane .A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.
Georges ClemenceauMonet's garden must be included with his works, because he combined the magic of an adaptation of nature with the work of a painter of light. An extension of the studio into the openair, with color tones lavishly spread out on all sides to exercise the eye with seductive vibrations, from which a feverishly aroused retina expects unquenchable joy.
Georges ClemenceauWhat can a mere French minister do when associated with Lloyd George, who thinks he is Napoleon, and Woodrow Wilson, who thinks he is Jesus Christ?
Georges ClemenceauMy home policy: I wage war; my foreign policy: I wage war. All the time I wage war.
Georges ClemenceauI don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace is an interlude during war.
Georges ClemenceauA collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne.
Georges ClemenceauA 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 ClemenceauA man who has to be convinced to act before he acts is not a man of action. You must act as you breathe.
Georges ClemenceauOn 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 ClemenceauLiberty is the right to discipline ourselves in order not to be disciplined by others
Georges ClemenceauA 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 ClemenceauIf you don't vote Socialist/Communist before you are twenty, you have no heart - if you do vote Socialist/Communist after you are twenty, you have no head.
Georges ClemenceauNot to be a socialist at twenty is proof of want of heart; to be one at thirty is proof of want of head.
Georges ClemenceauWhen a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves he isn't a man of action.
Georges Clemenceau