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Georges Clemenceau

Georges Benjamin Clemenceau (French pronunciation: [ʒɔʁʒ bɛ̃ʒamɛ̃ klemɑ̃so]; 28 September 1841 – 24 November 1929) was a French politician, physician, and journalist who was 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.

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One begins to realize that art. . . in setting out to express nature with ever growing accuracy, teaches us to look, to perceive, to feel. The stone itself becomes an organic substance, and one can feel it being transformed as one moment in its life succeeds another.

Art, Looks, Nature, Perceive, Realize, Succeed

My home policy: I wage war; my foreign policy: I wage war. All the time I wage war.

Foreign Policy, Home, Policy, Time, Wage, War

Oh, to be seventy again!

Birthday, Funny, Humor, Seventy

War is a series of disasters which result in a winner.

Disaster, Disasters, Result, War, Winner

It is easier to make war than to make peace.

Easier, Humanity, Make, Peace, War

What is said behind my back is said to my ass.

Ass, Back, Behind My Back, Said

In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Insane, Learning, Man, Men, Satisfied, Teaching

Il est plus facile de faire la guerre que la paix. It is far easier to make war than to make peace.

Easier, Make, Plus, War

The best time of love, is when one goes up the stairs.

Best Times, Love, Love Is, Stairs, Time

If 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.

Head, Heart, Twenties, Vote

I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace is an interlude during war.

Know, Military, Peace, War

What 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?

Associated, Government, Jesus, Mere, Thinking, Woodrow

All the great pleasures of life are silent.

Life, Pleasures, Silence, Silent

A man who has to be convinced to act before he acts is not a man of action. You must act as you breathe.

Action, Breathe, Life, Man, Men

Monet'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.

Exercise, Eye, Garden, Painter, Studio, Works

My son is 22 years old. If he had not become a Communist at 22, I would have disowned him. If he is still a Communist at 30, I will do it then.

Become, Communist, Son, Years

Americans have no capacity for abstract thought, and make bad coffee.

Abstract, Bad, Capacity, Coffee, Thought

War is too serious to be entrusted to generals

Entrusted, Generals, Serious, War

Generals cannot be trusted with anything, not even with war.

Generals, Trusted, War

A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne.

Collective, Land, Length, Spread, Thrones, Tyrants

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