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date: 15 May 2025

Georges Clemenceau 1841–1929
French statesman, Prime Minister of France 1906–9, 1917–20. See also Anonymous 

  1. War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men.
    attributed to Clemenceau, but also to Briand and Talleyrand; see de Gaulle
  2. My home policy: I wage war; my foreign policy: I wage war. All the time I wage war.
    speech to French Chamber of Deputies, 8 March 1918
  3. It is easier to make war than to make peace.
    speech at Verdun, 20 July 1919
  4. Oh, to be seventy again!
    on seeing a pretty girl on his eightieth birthday
    James Agate diary, 19 April 1938; also attributed to Oliver Wendell Holmes Jnr.