"War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory."
— Georges Clemenceau

January 1, 1970

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Statement to Woodrow Wilson at the Paris Peace Conference (12 January 1919), as quoted in The Macmillan Dictionary of Political Quotations (1993) by Lewis D. Eigen and Jonathan Paul Siegel, p. 689