“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.”

—  Georges Clemenceau

As quoted in Clemenceau and the Third Republic (1946) by John Hampden Jackson.
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