Georges Clemenceau Quotes

War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.

We all know that in war the political and military factors have to complement each other.

Whenever we get involved in a war, the White House seems to have 3 priorities: We cannot appear to be losing; we must appear to be winning; we must look like we know what we are doing.

It is easier to begin a war than to end one, which is why the decision to start a conflict should not be entrusted to the person who wages it. Post‐war presidents have abandoned this wisdom.

We wanted this war and now we've got it, and I'm not sure that we know what to do with it.

War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

I believe the military should be wary of diplomacy until war is declared; then the State Department should keep its nose out and let the military do whatever is necessary to win.

I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.

War is failure of diplomacy.

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

I certainly don't like a label that suggests I believe that the military is the solution to most of the world's problems.

There are two things that will always be difficult for a democratic people to do: to start a war and to finish it

It is not every cause of war that should lead to war.

The most expensive peace is far less costly than the cheapest war.

Thinking about the war now and the occupation later is not an acceptable solution.

We’re not going to need as many people to do peacekeeping as we needed to fight the war.

Every aspect of war is political.

When we analyze this war in a materialistic way and ask when is it going to end and who will be the winner and the loser, it means that we do not see the endgame.

I think when war becomes your life, I think it's very difficult to have the proper perspective to be able to create a fully balanced policy.