"My home policy: I wage war. My foreign policy: I wage war. I wage war everywhere, all the time."
"War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory."
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His poor marksmanship must be taken into account. We have just won the most terrible war in history, yet here is a Frenchman who misses his target 6 out of 7 times at point-blank range. Of course, this fellow must be punished for the careless use of a dangerous weapon and for poor marksmanship. I suggest that he be locked up for eight years, with intensive training in a shooting gallery."
(Arguing against seeking the death penalty for the anarchist who had attempted to assassinate him on 19 February 1919, shooting at him seven times and hitting him only once in the chest)
"War is too important a matter to be left to the military."
"A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head."
"America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization."
"The Germans may take Paris, but that will not prevent me from going on with the war. We will fight on the Loire, we will fight on the Garronne, we will fight even in the Pyrenees. And if at last we are driven off the Pyrenees, we will continue the war at sea." (1917)
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