Georges Clemenceau
Georges Benjamin Clemenceau 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.
Clemenceau was first Prime Minister from 1906 to 1909, and then again from 1917 to 1920. In favour of a total victory over the German Empire, he militated for the restitution of Alsace-Lorraine to France. He was one of the principal architects of the Treaty of Versailles at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. Nicknamed "Père la Victoire" (Father Victory) or "Le Tigre" (The Tiger), he took a harsh position against defeated Germany, though not quite as much as the President Raymond Poincaré, and won agreement on Germany's payment of large sums for reparations.
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“Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.”
“All that I know I learned after I was thirty.”
“War is too important to be left to the generals”
“L'homme qui n'a pas été anarchiste à seize ans est un imbécile. Mais c'en est un autre, s'il l'est encore à quarante.”
“A mans life is interesting primarily when he has failed. I well know. For its a sign that he tried to surpass himself.”
“War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military. ”
“War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.”
“Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.”
“America is the only nation in history which, miraculously, has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilisation.”
“America is the only civilization in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization”