Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more. – Georges Clemenceau
A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne. – Georges Clemenceau
I don’t know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war. – Georges Clemenceau
My home policy: I wage war; my foreign policy: I wage war. All the time I wage war. – Georges Clemenceau
In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking. – Georges Clemenceau
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. – Georges Clemenceau
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. – Georges Clemenceau
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization. – Georges Clemenceau
Oh, to be seventy again. – Georges Clemenceau To friend on his 80th birthday as attractive young woman passed them by. Also attributed to Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr
