More from Georges Clemenceau

  1. He had one illusion - France; and one disillusion - mankind, including Frenchmen.
  2. 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.
  3. When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you m…
  4. A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. It is as if a tennis player before r…
  5. America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilisation in between.
  6. There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function.
  7. Americans have no capacity for abstract thought, and make bad coffee.
  8. Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

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