Georges Clemenceau

“The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.”

“A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but who, as a group, can meet and decide that nothing can be done.”

“War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.”

“America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.”

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

“My home policy: I wage war. My foreign policy: I wage war. All the time I wage war.”

“The graveyards are full of indispensable men.”

“It is easier to make war than peace.”

“Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.”

“Mr. Wilson bores me with his Fourteen Points; why, God Almighty has only ten!”

“If you don't vote, you lose the right to complain.”

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

“All our past proclaims our future.”

“There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare.”

“Life is a waste of time and time is a waste of life, so let's get wasted all of the time and have the time of our life.”

“A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.”