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Georges Clemenceau on Veterans Day

1841–1929 France

← All quotes by Georges Clemenceau

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War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men.

It is easier to make war than make peace.

War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.

I do not know whether war is an interlude in peace, or whether peace is an interlude in war.

Neither treason, nor semi-treason: the war. Nothing but the war.

Peace or war, we are in the midst of a relentless struggle for power. Woe to the weak! Turn your back on the purveyors of soothing syrup!

Grandeur and Misery of Victory (1930)

We made war to the end—to the very end of the end.

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

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Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Georges Clemenceau (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.