Quote#Wisdom
[W]hen at Versailles Brockdorff-Rantzau addressed me in the language…
Quote byGeorges Clemenceau · 1841–1929
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Grandeur and Misery of Victory (1930), p. 99.
English (original)
[W]hen at Versailles Brockdorff-Rantzau addressed me in the language of the bearer of a challenge, I was forced to realize that the German revolution was mere window-dressing, and that, with the aggressor of 1914 not a whit cured of his insane folly, we should continue without respite to be subjected, in a new setting, to the same attack from the same enemy.
— Georges Clemenceau
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