Georges Clemenceau

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves he is not a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

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.

There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function.