Georges Clemenceau

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“All our past proclaims our future.”

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

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

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

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

“The graveyards are full of indispensable men.”

“It is easier to make war than peace.”

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