Best Quotes by Georges Clemenceau (Top 10)

  1. In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.
  2. America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
  3. All that I know I learned after I was thirty.
  4. 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.
  5. I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.
  6. All the great pleasures of life are silent.
  7. War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.
  8. War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men.
  9. 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.
  10. 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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