Georges Clemenceau (1841-1929), French Statesman
- "War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men."
- "It is far easier to make war than to make peace."
- "America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization."
- "All that I know I learned after I was thirty."
- "In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking."
- "Military justice is to justice what military music is to music."
- "Mr. Wilson bores me with his Fourteen Points. Why, Almighty God has only Ten Commandments!"