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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!

— Georges Clemenceau Grandeur and Misery of Victory (1930)

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

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.

To me the scene possessed only the horror of a slaughter-house.

It is easier to make war than make peace.

The quantum of a hypothetical German civilization would not take us very far, because she is to-day still too close to barbarism.

Grandeur and Misery of Victory (1930)

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