Clemenceau, Georges

"America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilisation." - attributed

"War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers." - quoted by J. Hampden Jackson in Clemenceau and the Third Republic

"In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking." - quoted in Clemenceau, The Events of His Life As Told by Himself to His Former Se