Georges Clemenceau Quotes

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.

No one really wants to send their kids off to die for oil.

We are not going to achieve a new world order without paying for it in blood as well as in words and money.

We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years … and put wonderful young men and women at risk, many of whom have lost their lives, and we have asked for nothing except enough ground to bury them in, and otherwise we have returned home … to live our own lives in peace. But there comes a time when soft power or talking with evil will not work where, unfortunately, hard power is the only thing that works.

It is better to pay tribute of gold to the enemy than tribute of blood in war.

We've been at war for many years in Afghanistan following 9/11. We know that we've got young men and women on the ground now. We've got our blood and treasure at stake there already.

Terrible wars have been fought where millions have died for one idea - freedom. And it seems that something that means so much to so many people would be worth having.

In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

There is no common sense in going to the field to fight and leaving a man at home to undo all that you accomplish.

I hated the draft, but at the same time, it's something that made every American take war seriously.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

We are a nation at war - and we should act like it.

When life is victorious, there is birth; when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace.

I think that you can honour the sacrifices of a common soldier without glorifying war.

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

This bloody past suggests to us that enemies cease hostilities only when they are battered enough to acknowledge that there is no hope in victory - and thus that further resistance means only useless sacrifice.

We love peace, but not peace at any price.

What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.

When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.

This conflict is one thing I've been waiting for. I'm well and strong and young - young enough to go to the front. If I can't be a soldier, I'll help soldiers.

There is no French town in which the wounds inflicted on the battle-field are not bleeding.

A war, with its attendant human suffering, must, when that evil is unavoidable, be made to fragment more than buildings: It must shatter the foundations of thought and re-create. Only in this way does every individual share in the cataclysm and understand the purpose of sacrifice.

History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.

So I would say God hates war, but God loves every soldier.